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Old 27th Apr 2009, 16:44
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gibbo568: You are right about the ailerons. Now that you have pointed it out, I dimly recall seeing a photo of the station staff holding the outer wing panel in the vertical position, and there were no "flappy hinged bits" visible.

I'm very interested to hear about the crew ejecting, as this raises the question of where this happened. Was it over water, because a Phantom would make a nasty mess if abandoned over land in the Oxford area! The feedback I received at the time was that it landed OK at Upper Heyford, and that they had it repaired and in the air again within a week or so.
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