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[237SJ]

You are interested in this, aren't you? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5813317/Four-new-RAF-stealth-fighters-refuel-Atlantic-120million-jump-jets-fly-Britain.html

[Sqad]

Thank you very much 237, it is much appreciated, especially to know that 617"Dambuster" squadron is to be reformed with the new F35B fighters which will bring the capability of the strike force of the R.A.F to another level.
I brings back memories of a memorable weekend in 1980 when i met a farmer in Lincs who had given up farming to be a full time Aviation Historian and Tour guide ( I have forgotten his name). I arranged a weekend for a group of 20 doctors, Junior staff and theatre staff to be given a tour of "Bomber County " by this chap (Mike something) and we set off in a minibus and stayed at the Petwood hotel Woodhall Spa which was the officers mess of 617squadron during WW2. The tour was a huge success and the weekend ended with a dinner and snooker competition at the Petwood.
Guest speakers included a mate of mine who flew the Vulcan bomber and gave us some hair -raising stories and two Dutch women whom i met and invited to the dinner and they gave an insight into life under Nazi occupation in Holland in WW2.
Thank you again 237....much appreciated.

[murraymints]

very impressive.. the bouncing bomb was developed very near to where I lived in Herts...

[Prudie]

and was tested very near to where I live on the Fleet by Chesil Beach in Dorset.....

[237SJ]

Near me too (NPL)