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However, although the preserved aircraft remained in very good condition and could easily be restored to flying status, all the various updates and small changes that the rest of the fleet had meanwhile went through rendered those two Tonkas useless, for all intents and purposes.
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@Al R: You're certainly right if we're talking about a "doomsday" scenario. However, having a rather limited military threat in conventional terms, the maintenance costs of having several small sub-fleets are simply prohibitive.
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911 is yet another of those museli munching liberal types that never could find the courage required to defend the land of their birth, that they now so strongly despise. Probably spent all their lives in Social work or lecturing 
911, a bit cheesy, but it gets to the point:
Col Jessop, "A Few Good Men"
Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.
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Weston Hills school pupils received bravery awards after yesterdays USAF F-15 crash in the area.
BBC News - Weston Hills pupils get bravery awards after F-15 crash
BBC News - Weston Hills pupils get bravery awards after F-15 crash
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Genuinely enthralled by the jet that has raised fears over dogfighting (their words) over built up areas - by coming down in a field. I must be missing something.
Very much enjoyed the eyewitness who testified that in her mind "this was not a controlled crash"...blistering insight.
Very much enjoyed the eyewitness who testified that in her mind "this was not a controlled crash"...blistering insight.
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Well I suppose some of the population are likely to have a few complaints, after this, it probably did scare the **ap out of them, although its not an every day occurrence these days.
There was a couple on Look North demanding something be done about it
From memory the only accident in that part of Lincolnshire has been the pair of Tornado F.3s near the Digby area in January 96 and the Harrier GR.7 near Heckington in 1993.
Pleased the pilot made a safe landing, even if he had to do via a parachute.
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There was a couple on Look North demanding something be done about it
From memory the only accident in that part of Lincolnshire has been the pair of Tornado F.3s near the Digby area in January 96 and the Harrier GR.7 near Heckington in 1993.
Pleased the pilot made a safe landing, even if he had to do via a parachute.
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She saw the F-15D come down and said it was "pure luck rather than judgement" that it did not hit houses and the school.
"From what I saw that was not a controlled crash," she said.
"That plane was completely out of control and wasn't manned for the last mile it was flying.
"When it lands so close to a school and so close to houses, that, for me, is a major concern.
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I had always been led to believe that time and probability were related, and things that happen in the past are actually certainties. It's therefore impossible to accurately surmise what might have happened when something else actually did.
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From memory the only accident in that part of Lincolnshire has been the pair of Tornado F.3s near the Digby area in January 96 and the Harrier GR.7 near Heckington in 1993.
Courtney Mil, temepered by the subsequent statement,
""I was looking at the site this morning and thinking if the pilot had tried landing the plane where he did he couldn't have picked a better spot because it missed everything.
"But he didn't put it there, it was just chance."
El G.
""I was looking at the site this morning and thinking if the pilot had tried landing the plane where he did he couldn't have picked a better spot because it missed everything.
"But he didn't put it there, it was just chance."
El G.
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Cheers
Tay Cough, I was indeed generally referring to the Spalding/Sleaford area
Thinking about it a bit more, there was another Harrier around there in 1999, at Surfleet IIRC
I do remember the accident to I.. ... I 1988 and the footage on TV with the Lightning flypast over Binbrook village church.
That was about the time that the Grimsby RAF careers office failed me for the second time
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Tay Cough, I was indeed generally referring to the Spalding/Sleaford area
Thinking about it a bit more, there was another Harrier around there in 1999, at Surfleet IIRC
I do remember the accident to I.. ... I 1988 and the footage on TV with the Lightning flypast over Binbrook village church.
That was about the time that the Grimsby RAF careers office failed me for the second time
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I hadn't yet been in a month or so when we were all paraded in anticipation of being deployed as crash guards following a mid air collision between a couple of Harriers near Peterborough. Sobering to think that the T4 student, let alone his instructor, would now be safely retired to a desk or civvy street.
