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To: Fai Mao
Here is a plane from my squadron performing joint operations with the Ark Royal and this was right around that time (maybe 1977-78 IIRC)...

When I was working the fuel pits at Cecil Field during this time, one of their Buccaneers landed at the base, and while it was taxiing on one of the taxiways, gray smoke started pouring out of the side of the plane...the two man crew leaped out of the plane and ran to the grass off to the side as the crash crews came out with lights-a-flashin'!

I must say, it was funny to watch in some way, but I didn't blame them a bit. When planes go up in flames...they don't waste time!

6 posted on 09/20/2016 9:20:26 AM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: rlmorel

They must have spilled their rum ration.


7 posted on 09/20/2016 11:18:25 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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