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Old 26th July 2012 | 19:52
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BEagle
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From: Quite near 'An aerodrome somewhere in England'
BSweeper, the FS movie Lightning accident was based on the Tengah accident.

If you look at the Skywatch movie, there is a good clip of the 2 Lightning F3s doing reheat rotation take-offs.

Rumour has it that a certain, thoroughly disliked ex-Lightning senior officer* tried to have a Tornado F3 mate court-martialled for exceeding the F3's release to service clearance after a porked-up "let's see how high it will go!" event. Until, that is, someone happened to mention that the reheat rotation was outside the Lightning release to service, so perhaps the example of certain former Lightning pilots might be raised by the defence... Whereupon the matter was dropped.





*Whose name, it is alleged, might have been 'Bill'.....
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