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Old 24th Jun 2009, 19:25
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I too have seen the Tornado flown extremely low at Saints. Sometime in the mid eighties I was doing some AEF at Saints. A Tornado took off being delivered somewhere or other, we Spacies were told to go outside as the aircraft would do a low fly past. Stood outside chatting near the tower on West camp when I saw a Tornado come between the hangars on a wing tip, go past us, not too far away still on a wing tip before climbing away. Not sure how high it was but my abiding memory is seeing, as it passed us, the reflective strips on top of the pilot and navs helmet.
At the end of the eighties and early nineties I was a staff cadet on the VGS at Saints and witnessed quite a few low level beat ups but never the same as the first one.
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