No, I haven't flown XL571 or XL572, Piers. The nearest I got was
XL569 and XL576, both Hunter T7s, in July 1978 when I was on the
Tactical Weapons Unit at Brawdy in Pembrokeshire.
And I was at prep school in the 1960s, Piers :-)
Chris
On 16 Apr 2008, at 09:41, Piers Hemy wrote:
> There's a bit of a problem with the museum website, Chris, but it's
> not too
> hard to find out that it is a Hunter T.7, indeed! "XL572 first
> entered
> service at 229 Operational Conversion Unit at Chivenor in 1958.It
> came to
> Elvington in 1994 and has been painted in blue livery to represent
> XL571 the
> leading aircraft in the Blue Diamonds formation team. The team was
> based at
> Leconfield in the early 1960s."
>
> So have you been concealing your past glory in the Blue Diamonds?
>
> --
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