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After over 50 years in service the RN is retiring from service, the last of its seakings, the AEWACS Mk7 ASa K Seaking version of 849 Sqn or "bagger" as its known. Merlin Mk 2 will be taking up this role on HMS Queen Elizabeth. They flew their last operational flight on the 14th.
They had planned to do a flypast tour of Devon tomorrow, but weather has meant they are deferring that flypast to wednesday
People across Cornwall should look up to the sky on Wednesday for a farewell flypast of one of the most important aircraft of the last century.
SEA KING FLYPAST CHANGE OF DATE: Due to the bad weather forecast for tomorrow, we hope to carry out the Farewell Flypast on WED 19th September now. These aircraft have been flying for nearly 50 yrs - we hope that #StormHelene won’t stop their lap of honour #flynavypic.twitter.com/jAiqTorxMF
There used to be a few based at Aldergrove in Op Banner days.
They'd fly when the RAF wouldn't due to the weather; I've heard various reasons for that such as Seaking had radar (not sure if it had), the pilots were used to flying without visual reference, and that the RN / RAF had different flying parameters.
I prefer to believe it was just because the RAF were cnuts ðŸ‘
'History is a vast early warning system'. Norman Cousins
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