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Old 2nd Dec 2001, 14:55
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I remember reading (in Pilot I think) about a crew flying down the Persian Gulf in the 1980's and seeing a 4-engined propellor aircraft crossing quite close below them. The FO contacted whichever ground station he was working who insisted that they had nothing on radar. The crew initially assumed it was a C-130 but then realised that it had the characteristic twin eliptical fins of a B-24 Liberator. At the time the only B-24's in the area were in museums in India and the only flying B-24 was in the USA.

When I used Shipdham airfield, I was not alone in not liking locking up the hangar at night. It wasn't one of the original buildings from WW2 but the whole place was quite spooky in the evenings.

Edited for rcap spelling as usual

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