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Old 3rd Apr 2015, 11:25
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midsomerjambo
 
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The Red Arrows and 3 x TWCU Tornado GR1 visited the USA in May 83 and gave a number of display. The TWCU aircraft also flew low-level missions from Andrews AFB and Goose Bay, and appeared at the Andrews AFB Open House that year.
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I was a FGCS/CODA tech on TWCU at the time and couldn't believe my luck landing this det. We went out and back on an Albert full of GSE so not much legroom. We staged through Gander outbound and Goose on the way back. At Goose we were treated to the sight of the space shuttle departing piggybacked atop its 747 (think I have a pic of that somewhere). There was no accommodation on base at Andrews so we had to slum it at the Camp Springs Holiday Inn The aircraft just happened to be lined up together on the ramp that day so thinking you don't see those together that often, snapped them with my Instamatic.
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