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Old 14th Feb 2017, 15:40
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donald d
 
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I had a trip in a JP, a low level navigation exercise over Yorkshire at 250 feet mostly, it was memorable ride at such low level, I've got the Pilots name in my log. The trip was meant to be a ride in a Meteor 7 so was disappointed when told it was in a jeep.

At this time I worked at Strubby but was also in the Air Training Corps.

I used to get lots of trips in the Varsity over the years there was even a long weekend at Wildenrath, left on Friday back on the Monday there were Harriers there at that time, the camp,Wildenrath is now a Locomotive test track for Siemens.

The trip over Lincolnshire airfields you mentioned it doesn't really mean a lot to the people on the ground, we saw them off and we saw them back in, as it was work these episodes are looked upon as a break in routine.

All the years I was there I didn't get many photographs as officially you were not allowed
To take pictures.
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