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I had a mate who was an avionics engineer at Amberley in the 80's (Sqn Ldr Bill "Ted" Malkin, we all called hime Ted as it was short for Sh***ead). He told me about going out in an F111 on a flight out to sea when they spotted a Taiwanese fishing boat. Bill was in the navigators seat as he was along to see how the electronic stuff he worked on was used in action. The pilot said watch this, and put the ground following radar on to 200ft/ The plane simply dropped out of the sky and pulled out of a near vertical dive 200ft above the fishing boat. Bill looked back to see 20 Taiwanese fishermen all diving into the water!
Those were the days!
Malcolm
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