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Old 5th Oct 2014, 07:55
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If I can find it, J I will get Roland 'Bea' Beamont's book in which - I think - he relates to an incident concerning flying through the blast of the bomb's wake, and I rather think it was over Tonbridge.


He told me in April 2004 that after flying through the blast "the first time I hit one" it didn't seem like a good idea anymore. A few days later in his Tempest, he flew Tempests and Typhoons, he put his wingtip under the tip of the bomb's wing to 'upset the airflow' and it fell away - hopefully into open country. He said he had heard at the time that pilots MAY have used a wing to actually tip the bomb up but he didn't think that was a good idea either!


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