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Old 1st Sep 2002, 04:07
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Foxed Moth
 
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Bentwaters by bicycle

When I was still young enough to dream of being a pilot I cycled out to Bentwaters one summer day, from Ipswich, to take photos and ended up being terrified by a bloke on patrol who called up a truckload of armed guards, or maybe they were just passing anyway ... some years later I met one of the USAF pilots who had flown in Vietnam and he described the first time he saw a Mig ... and how beautiful he thought it looked.
At that point it was apparently going away from him ...
It was at the Bentwaters BOQ, or so I heard, that once upon a time provided overnight accommodation to an RAF aerobatic team, possibly the Red Arrows in their Gnat days, who apparently built a brick wall directly in front of the front door to the aforesaid building.
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