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Old 14th Sep 2014, 22:12
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Best wishes to a great bunch of professionals.

I have memories of listening in on tactical frequencies when 75 RAAF went 2v2 or 4v4 against 74 RAF. Whilst 74 made a lot of noise on frequency, all we heard from 75 was "Fox 2, splash one" etc etc.

The RAAf flypast over Kuala Lumpur in (69) was good too ... 32 Mirage III from 3 and 75, with a couple of spares/whippers, who recovered to Tengah gently drifting into 4-ships at 5-mile spacing for run and break. I was in Local, and occasionally got the chance to say ... "Magpie 8, land in turn, 6 ahead and 8 on the runway". They were cooool operators, and I doubt much has changed.

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