Amazing photo from a Canberra at 100,000Ft.
On this Day 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to #RAFLuton. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as soldiers of fortune.pic.twitter.com/yhMw9ZTivW
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Again that Canberra. Nothing betas a Canberra!
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Ive seen them on the night shift in the Vauxhall factory. They are hiding in plain (plane?) sight.
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Where are heroes like those four nowadays.
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I suspect loads of plumbers in Luton had that van in the 80s.
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Why have we not heard more about this? It would make a great TV show.
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Their exploits were covered extensively in documentary style reenactments. Their link to
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Some people will do anything to get out of a weekend Orderly Officer
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I love it when a plan comes together
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Or as
@AirbusintheUK said to me: “I love it when a ‘plane comes together”
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