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Old 30th Nov 2014, 18:14
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Mal Drop
 
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The CARP tables were generally OK for temperate climes at near sea-level but it didn't take the brains of a rocket surgeon* to realise that at a few thousand feet up and ISA plus scorchio, the air would be a bit thinnerer making the still-air forward-throw a tad longerer and the canopy a bit less stoppier. This necessitated the 'green-on' being mindraulically adjusted to get the stores on more or less the right continent**.

* Yes, I know.

** Or not as a few of my fellow members of SODCATS found out***.

*** But not Dougie M, the well-known and godlike Elvis impersonator who smote American vehicles with his CARP of righteousness.
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