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100 YEARS OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE

RAF CENTENARY CELEBRATION PATROLLERS AND AIRLIFTERS 5

Managing Editors: Chris Clifford, Steve
Beebee

Written by: Stephen Bridgewater
Group Editor: Stuart Qualtrough

Contributing writers: Rebecca Gibbs,

Michael Allsop

Thanks to: Ajay Srivastava, RAF Museum

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unless noted

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Celebration: Patrollers and Airlifters

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Front Cover:

The Atlas’s TP

engines are arranged

so the outboard unit

on each side rotates

inwards, while the

inboard powerplants

spin outwards,

countering their

substantial torque.

This also improves

handling and

performance. PAUL

CROUCH/©UK MOD COWN

COPYRIGHT

This page:

Hawker Siddeley

Nimrod MR.1 XV

poses for a pre-

delivery photograph.

This was the fi rst

production example

and performed its

maiden fl ight on

June 28, 1968. It

was retained by

the manufacturer

for trials until 1973,

when it fi nally

joined the RAF as an

operational aircraft.

Today it can be found

at Bruntingthorpe,

Leicestershire where

it is kept ‘live’ and

regularly taxies at

the airfi eld’s popular

open days. KEY