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Old 5th Jul 2014, 16:13
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ACW418
 
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Vampire T11 at Linton

Danny,

Just checked my log book. As a member of the Alumni, as you refer to it, I note that our sortie lengths were from 0:40 to 1:00 with the longest at 1:10. I know not when ATC got worried about us but I seem to remember that after an hour we were getting a bit low on fuel. The shortest trip was 0:35 which was a solo formation trip and knowing how inept I was at formation was probably short because of my sawing at the throttle all the time. One dual trip in formation my instructor said that if I didn't slow down on the throttle the mechanism was likely to burst into flames!

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