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Re: HHA

Post by eagle driver » Sat Oct 15, 2016 3:19 am

A couple of logs have come to light from Scampton this week
Noted outside on Tuesday & Friday were
37+89 F-4F
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Re: HHA

Post by XPLUMBER » Sat Oct 15, 2016 8:35 am

I expect they needed to sweep the hangar floor and may take the oportunity to paint it too!


Did anyone ever go up and dust the collection?
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Re: HHA

Post by C24 » Sat Oct 15, 2016 10:22 am

My offer to clean&polish the windshields was ignored :roll:

I expect that they receive many daft offers from a wide range of weird people. It has been a great pleasure to have the Hunter, a Hunter, sneak in on finals. Caught it on camera on the odd occasion, normally I'm looking in the opposite direction.

Am I correct in thinking that the Reds will not be training for at least another 4/5 weeks?
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Re: HHA

Post by Andy Marden » Sat Oct 15, 2016 10:55 am

The Reds are in the Far East....

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Re: HHA

Post by C24 » Sat Oct 15, 2016 11:46 am

Hi Andy, yes, I knew that. What I should have written was "Anyone know when the Reds will be back at RAF Scampton and beginning their Winter training? "
By my reckoning it should be 4-5 weeks from Monday but i'm only guestimating.

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Re: HHA

Post by reheat module » Sun Oct 16, 2016 5:16 pm

Must admit, travelling the A15 a few times a week, I've not seen any Hunter activity.
I do see the Reds frequently, especially in the formation build up period in the latter quarter of the year.
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Re: HHA

Post by Freeman Lowell » Sun Oct 16, 2016 8:37 pm

C24 wrote: What I should have written was "Anyone know when the Reds will be back at RAF Scampton and beginning their Winter training? "
Reds are back to Scampton on December 1.
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Re: HHA

Post by C24 » Mon Oct 17, 2016 10:23 am

Thank you

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