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That did make me chuckle Paddyboypaddyboy wrote:Who the heck would want to steal a Varsity![]()
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Chapter 7 of Lightning Boys Vol 1 makes a reference to this although the chronology is wrong, unless it happened twice? I have read the same thing elsewhere saying it was a Lightning with a USAF pilot but haven't been able to find the book.Sparts99 wrote:There's a lot of cloak and dagger around this. If I remember rightly from some books I've read it was inferred an RAF fighter, flown by a USAF pilot who was on exchange at the time.
Make sure you read all of the parts, it is quite a tale!Zulu63 wrote:The full tale is on pprune https://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-354300.html. Scroll down to posts by ColinB.
I'd agree with that if the Lightning was in a hurry. In the Lightning Boys book the event is stated as being at Christmas rather than May but as I said I have read elsehwere that it was a USAF pilot in a Lightning, I just can't remember which book. And yes, I doubt the truth will out for sometime yet.willow70 wrote:I wouldn't think a Lightning would have the range to get to near Guernsey where it went down . At low to medium level it would need a F4 to get from East Anglia and back . A ex Bentwaters controller said it was one of their jets that got it, So many conflicting stories about this, perhaps the truth is buried in some MOD file with a 100 year restriction on it.
Actually they scrambled and patrolled the border until they knew which way the C-130 was going. I wonder if they would actually have ordered the C-130 to be shot down overe mainland Europe?Sparts99 wrote:Me again. Lightning Boys 2, last page of chapter seven, coincidentally the same place as the info I quoted above, a Gutersloh Battle Flight (QRA) Lightning was brought to cockpit readiness when this happened as it was considered a possibility the airman was trying to defect.
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