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Flying is fun?
One of the most interesting flights I had was in 1984, as a passenger in an ASW Sea king we flew in fog / low cloud from Culdrose to Benbecula, aircraft full of spares and kit. As we made our way up the UK, various instruments & gadgets started to fail, to the point were we were dead reckoning somewhere around Cheshire. Through a break in the cloud an isolated farm was spotted, so down we went, now the sound of 11tons of angry dark blue helicopter circulating around the farm brought out the occupants, all waving and seemingly happy with the attention, however more was to come, the observer and pilots were lost, so we landed in the farm yard, with children jumping and waving the aircrewman was dispatched to the house with a map and some form of present! ten minutes later we were off with some nice local directions to Benbecula. Amazingly our week in Benbecula we were able to find the 'needle in the sea haystack' quite easily, unlike finding the Hebrides!
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