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"Flying for Air China five years after leaving the RAF."
Flying in a formation of five aircraft, one of which was flying the Ensign beneath.
Three weeks later, flying in the same formation in the same place, in the same aircraft, one of which was flying the HKSAR flag underneath.
Flying in a formation of five aircraft, one of which was flying the Ensign beneath.
Three weeks later, flying in the same formation in the same place, in the same aircraft, one of which was flying the HKSAR flag underneath.
Being in Germany when the wall came down. My son and daughter(14 and 12 at the time) were one of the first through when they tok the fence down near the village where my sister was living at the time. Taking a leisurely drive through East Germany a few months later. 
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That Mig-29 would be this one... Yes, that's the BOB memorial Flight Spitfire and Hurricane... the Reds and a Pitts Special...
Accompanied by this
The programme...
I do believe that this was Concorde's last official air display too...
Accompanied by this
The programme...
I do believe that this was Concorde's last official air display too...
Mid 90s - At RIAT, watching from a distance as two Russian Officers showed two USAF Officers (all aircrew) round their visiting Backfire Bomber!! (peering in the cockpit, etc). I believe the USAF Officers where from the visiting USAF B1 Lancer. Also MiG 21 display, U2 in attendance and B52 flypast - having grown up being steeped in the Cold War (and gone through Checkpoint Charlie into East Berlin) it was incredible to see all this stuff together and everyone having a great time.
FLUG
FLUG
Sitting behind the windscreen of a Chinese registered Super Puma, with a Chinese crew and getting paid in US$, thirty six years after sitting behind the same windscreen at Odiham in 1971.
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Watching the flecks of pin point light from my Vulcan tapping into the adversary, the other pilot pressing his nose against the cockpit glass as I barrel rolled over his flaming chariot, the ejection seat finally firing with the flare of Saturnus and the adversary's body punched up to tumble over and over in the force gale 500 knot wind... my eyes tearing up with emotion as I carefully revectored and sucked him into the intake.
Booyah.
Booyah.
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Never thought I'd give an int brief to a Russian crew, but did just that for an IL-76 about to go into Sarajevo in 1994. They spoke no English, I spoke no Russian, so I'm not sure they got a full appreciation of the threat! They went in every day, and more often than not came back with fresh holes in the airframe.
In 1983 sitting, no cowering in a Toyota Land cruiser in a drainage ditch between the two carriageways of the Baghdad to Basra highway, just north of Basra while Iraqi tanks fired in the general direction of Iran, that after having just been shelled by long range guns from inside Iran..... and then eight years later seeing the recce photos of the project we had been working on in Basra at that time (quite legitimately
), having been bombed at the start of G1!
), having been bombed at the start of G1!
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Sharing an office at AFNORTH with a Czech Spetznas Col with a better Yorkshire accent than mine, and both of us briefing 24 visiting Russian Generals on the latest NATO Exercise! Who would have thought it.
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When I moved here to the States I never thought that I would think about moving back to Britain and come to the conclusion that it would be a bad idea... Unfortunately, for several reasons, this seems to have occurred...
A very, very sad reflection on our once great country...
A very, very sad reflection on our once great country...
Viewing and photographing a full line-up of tactical AA and AG weapons at Kubinka in 1994, expecting to have my collar felt by the KGB at any moment, instead retiring to a hangar for a lunch of Red Banner Mystery Meat and MiG-25 pre-compressor cooling fluid.