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“B uchan Master Controller on telebrief. Binbrook, alert one Lightning.” Wing Ops: “Binbrook acknowledged – Mission 04.” Master ...

The alarm blares, the ‘Q-Shed’ doors open and the unmistakeable shape of an English Electric Lightning is revealed. Wheee- phwoo ...

at RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, during the Cold War in the late 1970s – but the first simulated scramble held on July 22, 2012 by ...

Former Lightning pilots were contacted, including Wg Cdr (later Gp Capt) Andy Williams, former Officer Commanding 5 Sqn at Binbr ...

XR713 The LPG’s most recent venture was to save Lightning F.3 XR713 from the scrapman’s torch. The F.3 had landed at RAF Leuchar ...

Former RAF Chief Technician and LPG Chief Engineer is Derek Robinson (ret’d) who, with civilian engineers such as former LPG Chi ...

W hile the number of English Electric Lightnings built 337, including 25 pre- production, prototype and test aircraft – mean it ...

RAF LIGHTNINGS – OPERATIONAL SQUADRONS Number Notes No.5 Received its  rst Lightning, T.5 XS451, at Binbrook, Lincolnshire, on ...

No.29 The  rst Lightnings for the unit, F.3s XP765 and XP698, arrived on May 10, 1967 at Wattisham, Suffolk, and it operated th ...

No.74 Lightning F.1 XM165 was the  rst example for 74 Squadron and was delivered to the unit at Lecon eld, Yorkshire, on June ...

Lightning Augmentation Flight Formed at Binbrook in 1981 and used by Lightning pilots not assigned to  ying units to maintain t ...

Over 132 high-quality pages, RAF100 describes the aircraft, exercises, operations and people, and its pioneering work at the cut ...

J ust metres from Mackenzie Beach is the Flamingo Beach Hotel and associated apartments some of which have good views of aircraf ...

they pass the hotel and apartments. An Airbus A320  lls three-quarters of a frame at approximately 280mm focal length on a Cano ...

G ulf Air has faced tough competition, political disruption and  nancial woes, but is now back on a trajectory of expansion. Fr ...

in 1950 with the purpose of establishing scheduled  ights between some of the Arab States of the Persian Gulf, alongside charte ...

They were used on short-haul flights and served until 1981. The Herons were replaced by two Beechcraft B80 Queen Airs, flying in ...

passenger demand. The second Gulf War in 2003 had similar effects. Oman Air was founded in 1993 and Qatar Airways operated its  ...

included originating and terminating all flights in Bahrain, and closing routes to Johannesburg, Dublin, Jakarta, Singapore, Hon ...