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Old 9th Jul 2014, 19:33
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Windy Militant
 
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The German Navy had a display team called the Vikings back in the late seventies early eighties. Two ship F104s, I saw them at the Brawdy airshow a couple of times. Sneaky buggers used to split and while one was demonstrating a slow and dirty run his oppo would do a low fast run just behind him so while everyone was watching his mate, whooom he would shoot past.
As elf and safety was a bit slacker in them days we'd all end up covered in grass cuttings and smelling of kero! Actually one year there was an inversion or something as there were two shock waves, one as the aircraft passed and another a few seconds afterwards
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