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Capt Nick recounts his past and describes how Quick Reaction Alert functioned and follows an RAF Phantom through a scramble to intercept two Soviet Tu144 Bears.
A Phantom FG1 is armed up ready to be used on QRA.
Q1 sits quietly in the shed after being ‘cocked’ by it’s crew.
Intercept complete.
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The dangers of spatial disorientation for the pilot community.
Title picture by Alain R under Creative Commons licence.
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Preparation for the APG meetup at Farnborough with a little history of the area.
Title image The Posting House Tumbledown Dick, a watercolour of the pub painted in 1782 by Thomas Rowlandson. Creative commons image licence.
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Years before Sully ditched his A320 in the Hudson, Captain Ogg performed a similar feat in his Pan Am Stratocruiser in the open ocean between Honolulu and San Francisco. A remarkable story.
Images by William Simpson, US Coast Guard – US Coast Guard Photo, Public Domain.
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Some history of Farnborough prior to the 2016 Meetup, including the delightful story of Miss Tilly’s Orifice!
Title image by JAW at English Wikipedia – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0
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The first men to land at Normandy on D Day flew in Horsa gliders as part of a daring raid to capture a bridge. This is the remarkable story of their mission.
Title image created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence.
