Air Pictorial 1999-10
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B.Blanche - RAuxAF: 75 years of achievement
Air and ground crews of No 501 (County of Gloucester) Sqn with their DH Vampire F.1s at Filton in January 1950.
Reserve crew member, Flt Sgt Geoff Hanson at his ‘office’ in the back of a No 201 Sqn Nimrod.
No 601 (County of London) Sqn flew Bell Airacobra fighters for a short period in late 1941
RAuxAF at work. Flt Sgt Phil Williams of No 7010 (VR) Photographic Interpretation Sqn at Incirlik AB, Turkey, with an RAF Tornado crew recently returned from a mission over northern Iraq on Operation Warden.
Auxiliary crews also man RAF Hercules
Flt Lt Howard Chandler, a C-130 pilot in the RAuxAF and a BA captain in the commercial world.
Two Puma helicopters flown by Auxiliary aircrew trail Service banners during the amalgamation ceremony of the RAuxAF/RAFVR at Cranwell on April 5, 1997.
"Спитфайры" 613-й эскадрильи вместе в "Метеорами"
Spitfire F.22s of No 613 (City of Manchester) Sqn take part in an auxiliary exercise at Horsham St Faith in March 1950. Behind are Meteors of No 504 (coded HX) and 245 (MR) Sqn.
Westland Wapitis equipped some Auxiliary squadrons in the 1930s, such as these of No 600 (City of London) Sqn.
Hawker test pilot FO Hugh Merewether, an auxiliary in his spare time, takes a 615 (County of Surrey) Sqn Meteor F.8 into a climb for the cameras to publicise BoB Day at RAF Biggin Hill in 1954.