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For anyone who never saw them in real life, they were truly awesome machines, with both engines on full afterburner for take off the air sounded like it was ripped in two and your stomach fealt like it was being continually pounded; the flame out the back was metres long; a beautiful site in the evening nearing sunset. Often two would take of side by side which was doubly awesome. When landing they came down fast and hit the deck fairly hard and stayed up on their main gear with noses in the air for quite a long roll before coming down on three wheels, and they always deployed a braking 'chute which was dropped near the end of the run. The scene between activities was just like on the movie Memphis Belle (which was filmed at RAF Binbrook), with silence broken only by the wild birds (mostly skylarks) and fellow enthusiasts s.w. radios listening in to the tower and surroundinig air traffic. Anyway, enough reminiscing.
Rob.