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The Oxfordshire Howlers Retirement
On Tuesday 6 April, two of the RAF’s longest standing machines bade a sad farewell to their home for many years and headed off to await the scrapman’s axe. Steve Smith looks back at the life of this remarkable aircraft for AeroResource… The aircraft in question were XR807 and XV109, two of 101 Squadron’s VC-10s. [...]