Close, but you can't smoke cigars in the cockpit anyway.
I think the Blue Diamonds were disbanded in about 1962 - I wasn't accusing
you of being precocious, but you might have been showing particularly early
promise, (in the cradle), old fruit!
So, how about a pilot's comparative review of the Hunter against other
types? Given the chance and choice, would you fly one in preference to a
Tornado? Or a Typhoon??
--
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Chris Barker
Sent: 18 April 2008 16:32
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Circles.
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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