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Old 29th Dec 2016, 16:36
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..... better still, the Bluebird.
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Old 29th Dec 2016, 16:46
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Originally Posted by Chris Scott
Don't know quite why he was picking on Blackburn, but the same guy that told me about the Dutch barn also claimed that one of the test pilots had written something like this after his first flight in the prototype Buccaneer:
"This aircraft is extremely difficult to get into. It should be made impossible."
That remark was reportedly orignally made about another Brough product, the Botha, generally regarded as one of the worst aircraft ever built.
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