UK Lightning in focus

94 // September 2019 #378 http://www.airforcesmonthly.com

207

Back in the UK

TheUK’slatestLockheed

MartinF-35Bunitreturned

toRAFMarhamonJuly

16.No 207 Squadronis the

OperationalConversionUnit

(OCU)andJamie Hunterwas

thereforthearrival.

Right: The patch worn by the crew of No

207 Squadron, complete with the motto

Semper paratus, ‘Always prepared’. The

unit was formally stood up on August 1

and the fi rst F-35 pilot course at Marham

will commence in early September.

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