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Old 1st Apr 2017, 21:46
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5th April...

In April 1968, I was doing my Special Flying Award at Cranfield. I well recall watching the TV news in my (god awful) digs in Bedford's De Parys Avenue and hearing that someone had flown through Tower Bridge. Idiot journos later showed a graphic of a target-towing Meatbox, but we soon learned that it was a Hunter.

So 5th April 2018 will mark the 50th anniversary of Al Pollock's wake-up call to Wislon's government when he flew that epic trip in his Hunter FGA9 from RAF Tangmere to RAF West Raynham via the Palace of Westminster and Tower Bridge!

See: http://www.pprune.org/aviation-histo...er-bridge.html

Will the event be commemorated? Or repeated? Somehow I doubt it - but one can but hope!
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