BEYOND THE LIMITS

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Andrew Brookes describes how, in the space of 50 minutes, the RAF lost a pilot and six Hunters for no good reason

Adolf Galland, the great Luftwaffe fighter leader, used to say that the three most useless things to a pilot were yesterday’s weather forecast, the runway behind you and fuel left in the bowser.

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