Oddly the Americans were most unwelcome some twelvish years ago when there
was an At Home day at RAF Newton. The Commander as usual had whipped up a
superb selection of aircraft which "just happened to be in the area".
Unfortunately a pair of USAF Phantoms did their display at Langar by mistake
( a near miss ?) . This was whilst the Parachuting was in full flight !!!



"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
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I can't quite help on that but I do have a memorable experience of
Langar. At one time, it was operated, at least in part, by the Royal
Canadian Air Force.

I was invited the Officers' Mess one evening while a student at
Nottingham University for a Bridge Match; I was in the University
bridge team. In a very short apace of time, the Officers and their
"ladies" became significantly "under the weather" due to
excessive consumption of (doubtless duty free) alcohol. My bridge
partner and I managed to be a little more restrained with our
consumption, but we certainly took full advantage of the Canadians. I
can't recall the exact details nearly 50 years later, but we were
making the most outrageous bids - and coming home with slams when we
probably should never have bid that hand at all. We absolutely
slaughtered them!

Sorry Philip, but I didn't think to ask for the WMO station number!

LOL ... love the story. Would you have enjoyed your success even
more had they been Americans rather than Canadians? The RCAF
were there as a NATO force from 1951-1963.

I believe the British School of Parachuting (or some similar name)
keep the airfield alive these days.

Philip Eden