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Old 3rd Jan 2002, 00:32
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Rattlesden enjoyed an airfield attack by a Mirage IV looking for Wattisham (1981), Haverfordwest had a Hunter roar across it at 450KIAS thinking it was Brawdy (1976 oops, oh bug ger!), the boss of a Gnat sqn landed at Sleap when he thought his student was porking a diversion to Shawbury (1974), a Dominie entertained Coningsby with a visual approach intended for Cranwell (1975?), a VC10 made an approach on Milltown instead of Kinloss (1987?), the same crew flew back to Brize and made an approach on Fairford, a Hunter mistook SE Ireland for SW Wales (1978?)....

No-one got hurt - but a little pride was dented....
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