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Old 19th Apr 2008, 15:24
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Tim McLelland
 
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Good luck to him say I. Hope that his colleagues helped to pay his fine. Nice to know there are still a few spirited aviators out there who refuse to be stifled by this country's suffocating obsession with tedious rules, health & safety and political correctness. It's forty years since Allan Pollock's brilliant Hunter flight over (through?) London and Tower Bridge. Shame it was only a Tutor that turned a few heads this time but he gets my admiration.

It won't be too long before military flights are herded into a corridor over the North Sea with a base height of 2,000 feet. Or maybe the RAF's aircraft should be kept on the ground - they'd be much less of a threat to the population there. But wait... what if one should taxy through a fence and run unchecked through the local villages? Let's just keep them in the hangars with the undercarriage removed. Bet that will still be too much for our sad and sorry country.
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