[Sussex] OT - Vulcan to fly again....

[Stephen Williams]

On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 07:17 +0100, Colin Pickard wrote:
> On 9/5/06, Stephen Williams <sdp.williams at btinternet.com> wrote:
> > Similarly, flying an expensive, noisy high performance aircraft, on your
> > own, almost all at low level (250 ft radio altitude), with some
> > pyrotechnics (1,000lb HE retard bombs, 30mm HE Cannon, various less
> > exciting practice munitions etc.), completely legally and all at the
> > taxpayer's expense was a huge grin inducer for a hot-headed 23 year old.
> 
> Our defense budget justified in one sentence!

Not really, but maybe this does. My bombing CEP was 40ft. This means
that 95% of bombs I dropped fell within 40 feet of the intended target -
and that was with reversionary sights, not computed.

> Colin
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