"OK, journalists. Please try to justify the 'mystery flash' articles - now in the Telegraph also. Asking any Hawk pilot or technician would have cleared up the 'mystery'. The strobe light is even visible on the wikipedia entry photo for the Hawk.
'Mystery' meaning 'I am an uninformed sensationalist who can't be bothered to check anything'."
If they checked, they wouldn't be able to put up sensationalist head lines and therefore wouldn't sell as many newspapers.
The way the media / journalists / reporters are at the moment, they are starting to make Second hand car salesmen look good.
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