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Old 3rd Feb 2009, 10:19
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RAF Snow Blowers 1964.

Each base has capable snow-ploughs and the RAF's remaining stocks of Derwent turbojets—relics, almost, of the crossbow age—have been converted in station workshops into snowblowers to remove to the grass the snow piles the ploughs have heaped. In last year's exceptionally long and severe winter Wittering was "snowed out" for one day only of the many when it had aircraft assigned to the (Nuclear) Quick Reaction Force, said the STO.

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchi...0-%200390.html
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