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Old 26th Feb 2009, 13:56
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Didn't have a parking brake either - seat strap tightened around the emergency pneumatic brake handle worked OK provided pneumatics didn't deplete before you got the chocks in.

Great multi-role aircraft from the days when the weapons went where the crew aimed them - no kit errors, just poor weaponry if you missed.

And the Suu-23 was something else - what a wonderful noise and a real tight bullet group.

Rockets too - much better than those cluster things that so upset the civvies but did square root of bu**er all to the target.

Still enjoy seeing it as a gate guard - the last fighter in the RAF with real character.
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