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Matt
 
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Default OT Spitfire and the BBC reporting

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 10:27:41 -0000, "Doctor Drivel"
wrote:

Coming towards us was a
Lancaster, at about 100 feet higher than us, it passed within 500 yards and
appears at the same level as us and banked away.


Either you can't judge distances very well or the plane seriously
flouted clearance height regulations. I tend to believe the former
is correct. Are you sure this really was a South African you were with
or was it on top of Nelson Mandela House?

Now cut me a pipe 510mm long and don't use a hacksaw.




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