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Old 11th Nov 2013, 20:30
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This was the same afternoon that a Hunter mate tried to impress us by flying round the back of the range control hut at roof height. He did do it but failed to notice the HF aerial in the way and took a foot or two of his port wingtip off. Wobbling on his way back to Sharjah he had to jump out.
OC 20 Sqn on the Range Sardinia with one of the Avionics guys in the back decides to beat up the tower as he knows we ground crew are all visiting, nice view looking down on a Jag as it hurtles past close by and below window height, indeed so did the RAFG Flight Safety bod who had asked if he could come along with us to see some range work, he seemed Very interested in it..
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