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Old 11th Mar 2011, 10:58
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BEagle
 
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She did and they did...
Clearly not a certain lady, eh M-J?

I've only been intercepted when flying military aeroplanes:

1. In a Vulcan by Italian F-104s whilst doing some maritime radar reconaissance. Our navigator had decided on a route which tracked towards Italy from the direction of Libya.... But he always was pretty clueless. I was on conference intercom with the radar navigator as an F-104 went past well supersonic, so asked WIHIH of the captain - who'd thought they were Libyan Floggers... The Italian GCI controller said "My boys tried a-very hard to catcha you - they saya you looka very nice".

2. In a VC10K by Portuguese A-7s in international airspace. We'd been doing some AAR for a classified purpose and were returning back to Brize without the benefit of any flightplan. "I don't know how to tell you this, oh captain my captain, but we've just been intercepted by a couple of bombers", I told the USAF exchange officer captain. But we made him another medal for the trip.

3. In a VC10 by Spanish F-18s for training purposes near the Canaries.

RMK/EMBELLISH was always on any flight plan I wrote!
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