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Old 1st Jan 2015, 01:58
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parabellum
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I was part of a Sioux display team at Detmold, (BAOR), for Hobart open day in first week of August, 1966. We wore normal green flying suit and Mk3a white bone domes.

Can't remember all the exercises we did, everything synchronised without getting too close to each other! One manoeuvre I do remember is the eight aircraft, split into two teams, high hover, facing each other, staggered along either side of the extended centre line of the runway, dive towards each other, cross, zoom climb, stall turn/rudder turn at top, down cross and repeat a few times.

We were drawn from various units in Germany and only formed for the one display, together for eight days. Don't think we had a name, as such. Think the Blue Eagles came a bit later and were based in the UK.
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