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Old 2nd Jul 2008, 16:25
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IFollowRailways
 
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About fifteen years ago now, but several friends had flown into "my" strip on a sunny Saturday afternoon. We were idly standing around, when a twin engine aircraft flew overhead, joined downwind, dropped the wheels and flew a circuit, turning finals into our 375 metre grass strip. We leapt around, waved, ran about some more and ended up watching in horror as this aircraft came to a slithery, sliding stop about 6 feet from the dyke at the end of the strip. It was so close to the dyke that it couldnt turn and had to be pushed back when shut down! The pilot had mis-identified our strip for a licenced airfield about 3 miles away from us and in spite of the different runway orientation and what must have looked horribly short runway, still went for it!

As the driver and his three passengers disembarked, much to our amusement, one of my friends asked him "So where do you think you have landed then?"

The aircraft had to sit on the field for several days before the wind got up enough and someone was brave enough to fly it out.......
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