RAF Form 414, Vol 14

It’s logbook time again and you may recall that I was as freshly a minted A1 QFI as there could be and I had just left the training world to return to the front line on my old Squadron, the Fighting Cocks. I had been in Wales for over 4 years and in that time the faces I knew on 43 Sqn had almost all gone… it was like I was joining a unit of strangers. The Q Shed Additional armed aircraft ready to go onto QRA The F4 tank limiting speeds A Soviet Badger trying to sneak past at low level An F4 tanking from a converted Victor V Bomber Decimomannu Air Base How the ACMI Air Combat Manoeuvering Instrumentation worked The Men of Harlech near Llanbedr The Jindavik target drone A frame from the Jindavik cameras showing a Sidewinder about to impact the towed flare target My new navigator, Coolhand A 43(F) Sqn Phantom Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to the RAF, the USAF, RuthAS and Mike Freer.