Bob Tuxford,Roland White's Contact!: A Victor Tanker Captain's Experiences in the RAF, PDF

By Bob Tuxford,Roland White

touch! is a charming set of reminiscences from ex-RAF pilot, teacher and try pilot Bob Tuxford. The booklet follows his twenty-year profession in the RAF and describes highlights of energetic provider the world over, together with an observed trade travel within the US Air strength and participation within the Falklands conflict. The identify, a nod to the an important reaction in the course of air-to-air refuelling, underlines the real function that Bob conducted in the course of his profession as a captain of Victor K1s 214 Squadron within the Nineteen Seventies, and K2s on fifty seven and fifty five Squadrons within the early Eighties. This adventure resulted in him taking part in a necessary function within the first Black greenback project through the Falklands crusade – by means of being the final Victor tanker to refuel the Vulcan piloted via Martin Withers earlier than bombing started on that fateful evening in 1982. For this, he used to be offered the Air strength pass for gallantry. within the latter years of his profession, Bob made the transition to check piloting and have become the senior try out pilot at the heavy plane try out squadron on the plane and Armament Experimental institution, Boscombe Down. This publication is not only for aviation fanatics, yet for these in need of a better perception into the significance of the paintings conducted by way of tanker squadrons in the RAF in the course of the chilly War.

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