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Old 09-02-20, 09:44 PM
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Default Yours for nothing! RAF Marham jet being given away

Yours for nothing! RAF Marham jet being given away

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Old 10-02-20, 11:39 AM
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I'd take it, but think it might not fit through the door of the garden shed.
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Not for nothing -you have to prove that you have the funds to fully restore it ,that why they are giving it away - due to the high cost of restoration to M O D
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Not for nothing -you have to prove that you have the funds to fully restore it ,that why they are giving it away - due to the high cost of restoration to M O D
Not to the MOD but to the Air Base from station funds.
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stand corrected

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easy start isn't going to do it for that baby, she be rotten, and I am sure get scrapped, with the tail becoming the new gate guard, and the cockpit sold and sawn off.
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This is a problem for all gate guards, they rot unseen from the inside out. Which was why the RAF purchased fiberglass Spitfires & Hurricanes a number of years ago and sold off the originals.
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