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Old 2nd Jul 2008, 15:59
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chevvron
 
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Been done to death before. It did NOT get the wrong airfield; as he turned 90 deg inbound for his flyby at Farnborough, the handling pilot put on a large handful of throttle (8 engines don't forget) causing him to overshoot his lineup and make it appear he was going for Blackbushe. On this occasion he departed Fairford to fly to the US via Farnborough so he was carrying a lot of fuel too (probably re-fuelled en-route as well). On his return a couple of days later inbound Fairford, I lined him up to run in from the other end on a comparatively shallow closing heading there was no problem!
Now the B1b a couple of shows before was a different matter; Jamie wanted a close up view anyway.
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