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Hey V2, you are obviously a YouTube/Live Leak fanatic; any sign of the Buccaneer clip I mentioned in post #46?

Date would have been around 1976/7, but someone must have a copy somewhere……..
 
pbfoot said:
Hovercraft used to call us in CYQQ Comox on Vancouver Island to transit the zone
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I worked a RN Hovercraft at RAF Leuchars (EGQL), once (it was enough!) – it was supposed to come in for a refuel (gas turbine engines, of course). However, showing off, it weaved its way up the beach from the 09 end, over the sand dunes in amongst the approach lights and went aground in an impressive cloud of flying sand when it lost its 'air' as it tried to traverse a too-acute sand dune crest! It sat there teeter-tottering on the ridge like something from a Tom Jerry cartoon and promptly became an Obstruction for 3 days while the Navy dug it out.

How we laughed! I thought my trousers would never dry!

Strike Command were not impressed as Leuchars always held 'Northern Q' and used to launch about 3 or 4 times a week in those days.
 
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