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Old 8th Nov 2015, 09:42
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When I was a humble Metro F/O under training with Kendell way back in the 90's we were flying from Coober Pedy to Olympic Dam when an F/18 out of Woomera requested some formation flying practise on us. This was in the day of no radar, ADS-B or TCAS so we said sure go for it. The F/18 come up on our starboard wing then when he had satisfied himself went underneath and come up on our port wing. He then thanked us for our co-operation applied a fistful of thrust did a half roll and dived towards the red earth. Spectacular stuff, and in the days before mobiles and being too poor to afford a good compact 35mm only etched in the memory of those who were in the area. When the hairy leg hostie (me), went back to serve the sumptuous offering of fruit cake and orange juice to the pax the comment from one of the pax was, "Is he allowed to do that?" to which I replied, "Sir he is Airforce, he can do anything he wants!".

BTW doesn't PETA use trespass and intimidation to wage an ideological campaign against people conducting legitimate businesses?
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