Us get close to Bears? We wouldn't do such a thing, would we, eh Arters...
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Probably just another urban myth, but one of my UAS QFIs in the early 1970s told me that, back in the pre-Duncan Sandys
1950s in RAFG, a co-ordinted bunch of HM's jets at various RAFG stations sat waiting for a clag filled frontal system to wend its way across RAFG until it was just hitting East Germany. Then they all roared off towards the east, prompting loads of MiGs to scramble. 5-10 minutes later, they all returned to the west.
By then the MiGs were airborne - but when they tried to land the weather at their aerodromes was duff. So quite a few had to bail out....
As I say, probably an urban myth.