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Iconic plane lifts off...in gales

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January 29, 2025

STORM Eowyn was so powerful it made the last surviving 1950s RAF Blackburn Beverley plane take flight - for the first time since 1974.

- Chris Riches

Iconic plane lifts off...in gales

Despite precautions after Met Office red wind warnings last weekend, 80mph gusts still caused mayhem at the Solway Aviation Museum at Carlisle Airport, Cumbria.

And bosses revealed how sections of their iconic civil and military heavy transporter plane briefly took to the air.

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