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Old 18th Oct 2013, 21:06
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Dennis Kenyon
 
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Low flying

Thinking back to my Royal Air Force training days at number 209 AFS, RAF Weston Zoyland in Somerset ... I know of one pilot who flew a Mk1V Meteor Jet under the Clifton Suspension Bridge.

The year was 1954 and the day the Bristol Chief test pilot, Bill Pegg was obliged to force land a Britannia on the mud flats following the failure of all four engines.

A bit later an RAAF pilot attempted the same trick in a Mk5 Vampire but sadly got it all wrong and flew into the side of the gorge.

And of course the Dallas man, the late Larry Hagman ... (his double no doubt) flew a Hughes 500 under the bridge in the film Deadly Pursuit.
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