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Take-off by a visiting Danish Squadron at Jever.   The top picture was taken at a distance the day before.   When Ron Lund saw the same pilot lining up the next day, he crawled out on the grass and got the lower shot.   This character repeated this trick of holding the undercarriage UP button IN so that at lift-off, once the weight was off the wheels, the gear retracted.   Dave Gleen of 93 Sqn tried to copy this and succeeded in scraping his right hand drop tank off on the runway.  This was embarrassingly in front of a group of visiting Headmasters from UK - 11May59.  (See story.)   Col Steen Hartov of the Royal Danish Air Force has researched this incident and reports on 8th August 2008: "It was most likely taken on 13 April 1959.   I spoke to the pilot in #2 aircraft, Villy Breinholt, a couple of days ago.   The squadron in question, 724 Sqn, had a reunion last weekend and one of his old mates gave him a copy of this very picture, reminding him of the event.   (Thanks to Pete Jennings and Ron Lund.)
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