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Old 11th Feb 2009, 21:13
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BEagle
 
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Landed at Scampton once on a cold, damp winter morning. As we ran down the runway, the effect of the Vulcan's wing was to cause a sufficient mixing effect for the supercooled droplets just above the runway to turn into fog. We streamed the drag-bag and braked rapidly to a halt, then had to be led to dispersal by a fire wagon - we could hardly see a thing!

Got airborne at St Mawgan once, only to see what looked like smoke pouring in to the upwind end of the runway - it was thick sea fog! So I raced it downwind in my little Bulldog and threw the aeroplane on the ground a few moments before the place went out in fog.

But Brawdy was the worst place for 'supersonic stratus'...
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