FlyPast 02.2018

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62 FLYPAST February 2018 TRUCULENT TRIBES, TURBULENT SKIESTURBULENT SKIESTURBULENT SKIESTURBULENT SKIES T he hardships of the Gr ...

February 2018 FLYPAST 63 INTER WAR 100 YEARS OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE TURBULENT SKIESTURBULENT SKIES long as there was no general ...

64 FLYPAST February 2018 The insurrection was deemed to have been quelled by February 3. The four Mesopotamia squadrons had logg ...

INTER WAR 100 YEARS OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE February 2018 FLYPAST 65 KURDISH DEFIANCE Numerous challenges faced Iraq Command incl ...

66 FLYPAST February 2018 The most commonly used bombs in Iraq were 20lb Coopers and ‘baby’ incendiaries. Occasionally, when a bi ...

INTER WAR 100 YEARS OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE February 2018 FLYPAST 67 to Iraq from exile in 1922 in the hope that he might control ...

68 FLYPAST February 2018 continued to the 25th. Once more Mahmoud fled to Persia, and the RAF was instructed to conduct punitive ...

INTER WAR 100 YEARS OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE Squadron, to mount an all-out campaign against villages known to be harbouring Kurdis ...

70 FLYPAST February 2018 1918 2018 RECORDRECORD ARTIST ANDY HAY PAYS TRIBUTE TO A SHORT STIRLING AIR GUNNER WHOSE CREW COMPLETED ...

IN PROFILE - SHORT STIRLING 100 YEARS OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE100 YEARS OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE100 YEARS OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE100 ...

72 FLYPAST February 2018 THE MET BALLOONBALLOON A s a young pilot, Roger Dimmock survived a Sea Hawk crash at the 1958 Farnborou ...

February 2018 FLYPAST 73 STATION MEMORIES 100 YEARS OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE a lesser man would have been apoplectic. It was Roger ...

74 FLYPAST February 2018 MUSEUMS RAF LAARBRUCH Sentinel Today Laarbruch is a civilian airport, yet its museum houses a treasure ...

February 2018 FLYPAST 75 W hen it was announced that the RAF base at Laarbruch, Germany, was to close by the end of the 1990s, a ...

76 FLYPAST February 2018 MUSEUMS RAF LAARBRUCH The attraction opened in July 2007; eight years after the RAF left. The museum no ...

February 2018 FLYPAST 77 displays on each of the RAF’s German stations, and highlights the aircraft types flown over the last 50 ...

78 FLYPAST February 2018 FROM THE WORKSHOP STURMOVIK Sturmovik reborn A collection of images illustrating the return to fl ight ...

February 2018 FLYPAST 79 Sturmovik reborn An underwater view of the exhaust stacks of the Il-2. Despite their initial appearance ...

80 FLYPAST February 2018 FROM THE WORKSHOP STURMOVIK The strong wing spar construction of the Sturmovik is evident in this view. ...