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RAF Form 414, Vol 14
It’s logbook time again and you may recall that I was as freshly a minted A1 QFI as there could be and I had just left the training world to return to the front line on my old Squadron, the Fighting Cocks. I had been in Wales for
over 4 years and in that time the faces I knew on 43 Sqn had almost all gone… it was like I was joining a unit of strangers.
The Q Shed
Additional armed aircraft ready to go onto QRA
The F4 tank limiting speeds
A Soviet Badger trying to sneak past at low level
An F4 tanking from a converted Victor V Bomber
Decimomannu Air Base
How the ACMI Air Combat Manoeuvering Instrumentation worked
The Men of Harlech near Llanbedr
The Jindavik target drone
A frame from the Jindavik cameras showing a Sidewinder about to impact the towed flare target
My new navigator, Coolhand
A 43(F) Sqn Phantom
Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to the RAF, the USAF, RuthAS and Mike Freer.
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It’s logbook time again and you may recall that I was as freshly a minted A1 QFI as there could be and I had just left the training world to return to the front line on my old Squadron, the Fighting Cocks. I had been in Wales for
over 4 years and in that time the faces I knew on 43 Sqn had almost all gone… it was like I was joining a unit of strangers.
The Q Shed
Additional armed aircraft ready to go onto QRA
The F4 tank limiting speeds
A Soviet Badger trying to sneak past at low level
An F4 tanking from a converted Victor V Bomber
Decimomannu Air Base
How the ACMI Air Combat Manoeuvering Instrumentation worked
The Men of Harlech near Llanbedr
The Jindavik target drone
A frame from the Jindavik cameras showing a Sidewinder about to impact the towed flare target
My new navigator, Coolhand
A 43(F) Sqn Phantom
Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to the RAF, the USAF, RuthAS and Mike Freer.
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