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Old 3rd Mar 2003, 15:07
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I could be wrong but I believe the last Javelins to fly were with the Far East Air Force, Tengah, Singapore. One story has it that the squadron disbandment involved a fly-past of Javs following which the CO did a final beat up. Landed 5 minutes later believing that he had made RAF history. However, ………… one aircraft had been in maintenance at RAF Seletar, 10 minutes away. Flight Lieutenant White-Knuckles and his mate had decided some time before that they were the ones to make RAF history and, just as the champagne corks popped, over the fence they came. Worth a bollocking I'd have thought.

I lived on RAF Seletar from 75 to 85. There were three or four Jav carcasses off the northern end of the runway. My two sons grew up using them as hi-tech toys.
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