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Old 28th Sep 2009, 00:15
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Victor at Weston Super Mare Airfield

I remember when I was an RAF Apprentice at Locking doing an air radio course a Victor landing at Weston Super Mare Airfield. It was in 1959/60 and I believe it staged from Filton with just sufficient fuel for one attempt to land and return to Filton. I watched it doing a few practice runs in the days before and on the actual day it streamed its chute over the road before landing and managed to stop having used less than a half of the very short runway. It was then towed to the large hangar by the railway line and used for our apprentice training.
Obviously it could never take off again with that runway length, so was it scrapped or is it still lying forgotten and unloved some-ware, anyone know its fate?
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