December 2018 FLYPAST 85
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Above
Hunter FGA.9 ‘125’, displaying the post-1963
single assegai RRAF roundel, overfl ies part
of Lake Kariba in the Zambezi Valley.
Left
Provost T.52 RRAF 310, of 4 Squadron,
during a training sortie in 1965. This
aircraft crashed on October 12, 1966,
near Umvuma (now called Mvuma).
Left centre
On December 20, 1962, Flt Lt Mike Saunders
arrived at New Sarum with the fi rst of the
RRAF’s Hunter FGA.9s, this example being
coded ‘116’.
Above
The RRAF operated several Percival
Pembroke C.1s with 3 Squadron, one of
which is seen on a dirt strip at Kawambwa,
Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in 1960.
WG CDR PETER COOKE
