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Old 4th Jan 2013, 09:40
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zetec2
 
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Re DontTouchThat's question re Bears above, not a Bear but a Midas, on a Canberra engine air test out of Lossy in the very early 80's (detached from Wyton & after engine change) somewhere around 40K feet way out over the North Sea above & ahead was a Midas (IL76 with radar dome al la Sentry) so we climbed in pursuit to get a closer look, Midas knew we were there & opened up & not only disappeared upward but at far greater speed than our poor old Canberra could match, years later at RIAT was talking to a Russian IL76 crew relating the tale, they laughed & said "they were just playing with you", thought that might put it into perspective that as we weren't really crossing swords it was at that time just a big game, don't know how it would have panned out if it had have been real but was quite an eye opener, PH. +
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