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Old 8th Nov 2017, 22:10
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SpringHeeledJack
 
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Indeed. Sure brings back memories of a line of them in the BOAC maintenance area at LAP.
That must have been quite a sight, nothing like a retro remembrance! My only experience with a live C-97 was on a summer's evening in Suffolk, late 70's peering over the fence to either Bentwaters or Woodbridge when a clattering of engines started and then one after the other, perhaps 10 KC-97's of some mid-western ANG filed slowly past me, crew waving away and then with their jet engined assisted power plants roared off into the sky heading home after an european detachment. No camera, only fading memories....

I wish the owners of the C-97 all the luck in the world, and I hope that it can make it's way over to europe to the airshows in the near future.
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