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Old 18th Feb 2014, 20:23
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goudie
 
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RAF Wahn '56. The Luftwaffe reformed there, and their first and only a/c at the time was a Heron, 001. Every morning the groundcrew would park the a/c outside their hangar, which was next to ours, and lovingly attend to its needs.
Our Meteor NF11s were parked opposite. One morning one of our a/c commenced to taxy out, with the pilot checking the brakes as he did so. Unfortunately the brakes failed and the a/c ended up with it's nose jammed under the Heron's port wing! At the subsequent interview with the Sqdn Comm.
the pilot was congratulated for grounding the entire German Air Force but given a bollocking because' it was 16 years too f****ing late!'
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