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After I landed my aircraft I clambered out of the Hornet with the cold realisation that I might have flown my last sortie. The spinning sensation had ceased and the sortie had gone beautifully, it was almost as if it had been a bad dream. A continuation of tales from the Old Pilot’s logbook, RAF Form 414.
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Was the sun about to set on my career?
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The surgery span round and round
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Promotion
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Exercise K89
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One of our opponents, the F16
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Firing off live missiles like the AIM 7M Sparrow
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Landing in a thunderstorm
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A week on Song Song island acting as the Range Safety Officer
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The RSO and his crew of Malay troops
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My final flight and the boys renamed my aircraft Nick The Pom!