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Old 5th Sep 2017, 21:04
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Danny42C
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À propos of nothing in particular, the honour of the attempted asymmetric roller to end all asymmetric rollers should surely go to the Middleton Ghost (name forgotten) who, seeing he was going to go off the far end after an attempt at an asymmetric Meteor landing at MSG, whacked open the good one and described a wide arc through the camp before meeting his own room in the Mess, through the window of which he inserted the nose.

Might have got away with it, too, but the aircraft took out a lot of the supporting brickwork, and (in the words of John Henderson, an ATC oppo of mine, in the Tower at the time: "The lintel fell on his Swede").

John was later SATCO of Teeside airport (MSG that was). Seems the stude's Ghost haunts the West Wing of the (now) St. George's Hotel to this day.

So the story goes.