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Old 24th Mar 2011, 19:06
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Even by Telegraph standards, this is pathetic. In the unlikely event that there are any "proper" English teachers out there, this would be a great example text. On the other hand, a Careers advisor could use it to show how people can get a decent job without any of what we might call the required skills.


Flight Lieutenant Helen Seymour, 31, is usually based at RAF Coningsby but is currently stationed at the southern Italian airbase of Gioia del Colle.


She took to the skies yesterday for a seven-hour mission alongside two other Typhoons and two Tornados, returning safely to Italy in the afternoon.

Female pilots have flown in combat before, including in Harrier and Tornado GR4 aircraft over Afghanistan.


But Flt Lt Seymour, a former Tornado pilot, became the only RAF pilot to have flown the Typhoon in combat with after the allied western effort to enforce the UN-implemented no-fly zone over Libya gave the RAF its first opportunity to use Typhoons in a war zone.


Britain has sent about a dozen of the £70 million supersonic jets – which can fly at twice the speed of sound at 65,000ft – to bolster the international campaign.
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