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Tankertrashnav
Valiant XD818 which is now at Cosford used to be on display outside at Ops at Marham. Sometime in the 70s they took her four Avons out of her and flogged them to the Swiss for their Hunters. So we got a bit of money back!
I remember the gales of 1976/77 at Marham. The Valiant was so light it actually strained the chains holding it down, thankfully the tanks were still intact, they filled it with fuel to keep it on the ground. That same night a bomb-scare was caused by the tip-tank of a Canberra falling off and being blown into the main-road. Sorry about the thread creep, memories are flooding back.
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