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By CHRIS THOMAS 27th October 2022

… (comprising Nos 3 and 486 (New Zealand) Squadrons; plus 56 Squadron equipped with Spitfire IXs, awaiting Tempests) was … Typhoon, Gloster and Napier test pilot, encountered 20 to 30 Focke-Wulf Fw 190s already engaged with Spitfires, and … came on the 13th. Plt Off Bob Cole was on a defensive patrol at 14,000ft when he was warned of a jet’s presence by …

By ANDREW CRITCHELL 14th September 2022

… assignment was to the Bristol Bulldog IIa-equipped No 29 Squadron at North Weald. While working on their Bristol … April 1940 and Ian was leading Green section on a convoy patrol. On a hunch he twice climbed through a low cloud layer … refuelling stop at Acklington. Ordered to readiness at 04.30 on the 22nd, the initial patrol took off from Hawkinge at …

By Peter ten Berg 25th October 2022

… a matter of weeks. Part of this change means the force’s 30-year association with the Dornier 228 is drawing to a … STOL turboprop, PH-MNZ (c/n 8206), was acquired in 1992 to patrol Dutch territorial waters in the North Sea. It quickly … 2015, when the Royal Netherlands Air Force disbanded 303 Squadron and retired its Agusta Bell AB-412SP fleet, …

By Jon Lake and Angie Bee 13th September 2022

… absence from the Middle East, the 20th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron was deployed to Al Udeid Air Base in April 2016. … By the end of 2016, Coalition aircraft had dropped 30,743 bombs over the course of the year, up from 28,696 the … to RAF Fairford, a pair of aircraft conducted a presence patrol mission across the US Central Command area of …

By Ben Dunnell 4th February 2023

… posted on the bulletin board last week about new PT [patrol torpedo] boats. Gunboats in Vietnam — I’d like to do … like 14 F-4 squadrons, six F-8 squadrons and an A-4 squadron. Once you finished your transition training and you … wanted a P-51. So, I went to the auction, and it sold for $30,000. The $25,000 was borrowed from a credit union, and …

By Tom Kaminski 22nd November 2022

… squadrons. CTF-72 is responsible for the US 7th Fleet’s patrol and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance … squadrons report to the wing’s 374th OG. The 36th Airlift Squadron (AS), flies the C-130J and is responsible for 14 … September 8, 1986. It assumed its current title on January 30, 2008. Although located in Pyongtaek City, Osan AB is …

By THOMAS McKELVEY CLEAVER 29th October 2022

… three Mustang III squadrons credited with 232 V1s; one squadron in the Mosquito NF XIII and two with the Mosquite FB … ‘Sailor’ Parker and his navigator, WO Don Godfrey, were on patrol over Kent in their Mosquito N.F. XVII nightfighter … 100-150 V1s a day. Each Tempest squadron was averaging 30-40 sorties per day and often as many as 60. An uneventful …

By Ben Dunnell 17th September 2022

… life “as the result of air operations at Forest Row” on 30 September. Hilary Back’s connection to Crossman has not … Gidea Park, who got to know Crossman and another of No 46 Squadron’s Hurricane pilots, the Chilean-born Plt Off William … As usual, there was a rendezvous with No 249 Squadron to patrol near Hornchurch. They saw a large enemy formation, …

By WARREN E THOMPSON 15th September 2022

… on Korean soil were from the 336th Fighter Interceptor Squadron. The 4th Wing’s three squadrons had just arrived at … with clear visibility all the way. “As we approached our patrol area, we dropped our speed to approximate that of an … of ‘ace’ with his fifth ‘kill’ three weeks earlier on June 30. “With two MiGs down, we were looking for more when I …

By James Peene 27th September 2022

… fighter. Portsmouth-born Edward Rowland Thorn joined 264 Squadron at Martlesham Heath, Suffolk, in October 1939, when … the following morning Sqn Ldr Hunter led a formation on patrol between Dunkirk and Calais, when four Messerschmitt Bf … for the destruction of three enemy aircraft. In the first patrol of the day, they accounted for a Bf 109E, which …

By Khalem Chapman 23rd September 2022

… squadrons. In his response, Heappey said: “ 809 Naval Air Squadron is due to stand up in Q2 of 2023. Full operating … to stand-up the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm’s 809 Naval Air Squadron (NAS) in 2023 remain unchanged. By 2025, the … came on June 16, 2019, when two F-35Bs carried out a patrol over Syria as part of Operation Shader – the UK’s …

By Babak Taghvaee 25th December 2022

… operational until 1991 and 1999, respectively. A third squadron of SA.316Bs, 22S, was formed at Lanvéoc-Poulmic in … would continue to introduce a training element into the squadron’s responsibilities, establishing in 1976 the Ecole … air defences over its eastern flanks by flying combat air patrol missions. However, while the Alouette’s retirement was …

By ROBIN BROOKS 2nd September 2021

… and anti-U-boat patrols in the Mediterranean, No 500 Squadron’s efforts with the Lockheed Hudson added … for the initial sortie from Tafraoui. A few hours into the patrol, the aircraft coded ‘X’, flown by Fg Off Poole with … to dive. Two anti-submarine bombs were dropped 100 and 30 yards astern, by which time the U-boat had submerged. …

By TIM HILLIER-GRAVES 15th September 2022

… in 1939. Completed pilot training in mid-1940, joined 19 Squadron at Duxford. Probably shot down an ME 110 [sic] on … later he did so when flying with Pinkham on a standing patrol over Debden. They were vectored south to North Weald … no signs of this yet. “On each patrol we get up as high as 30,000 feet and it really gets most bitterly cold. The other …

By Tim Fish 29th December 2022

… It also means that combat aircraft can remain on patrol for long durations, providing air defence of important … from the 100th Air Refueling Wing’s 351st Air Refuelling Squadron on a KC-135 Stratotanker during NATO operations in … Force Base, Florida in October 2018. The 418th Flight Test Squadron is conducting refuelling tests with the fighter at …