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Old 29th May 2012, 21:40
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Waddo Plumber
 
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I don't agree SSD. For four years in the 1970s, from outside my extraordinarily well-guarded office on the other side of the A17, I often used to stare up the jet pipes of the displaying Vulcan. I've felt the wingtip vortices as it flew low over the mound I stood on. I watched Joe LeStrange skim the airfield at less than half span. I've stood on the ORP watching 16 ship scrambles. However, in the crowd at Farnborough a couple of years ago, I didn't feel I was missing out. Instead I was thrilled to the marrow to hear, see and feel the World's most charismatic aircraft howling down the runway towards me then roaring its defiance into the sky.

Let's hope the damage is limited to a couple of fodded engines.
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