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George Fenton | Flt. Lt. George Fenton Joined the RAF as a cadet at RAF College Cranwell in March 1966. He served with 29 and 11 Sqn as a Lightning pilot. He then converted to the Converted to F4 Phantom in 1975 and flew with 892 Naval Air squadron aboard HMS Ark Royal before returning to the RAF with 29 Sqn. In 1980 George went to RAF Chivenor as an instructor on the Hawk and remained there as a QWI until retirement from the service in 1985. Spent the next few years instructing in the middle east. First in Qatar then in Saudi Arabia. Returned to the UK in 1999 to join the instructional staff at the BAE operated Hawk simulator at RAF Valley. |
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Clipped Signature - George Fenton. Served in the Royal Air Force with No.29 Sqn and No.11 Sqn flying the Lightning, then converted to the Phantom with No.892 Sqn and then No.29 Sqn again. In 1980 he became an instructor at RAF Chivenor and then in the Middle East, retiring in 1999 and joining BAe Systems. |
Lightning Tribute by Stephen Brown. Lightning F. Mk 1As of 56 Squadron on a pilot training sortie during 1963. During the early 1960s many Lightning squadrons gave their aircraft colourful paint schemes, none was more striking than 56 Squadron (The Firebirds), who in 1963 doubled as the official RAF display team. |
QRA Scramble by Ivan Berryman. A pair of 29 Squadron Lightning F.Mk3s tuck their gear up and head skyward from the Wattisham tarmac in the summer of 1972. |
Lightning Strike by Keith Aspinall. No text for this item |
The Sentinel by Ivan Berryman. High in its element, a lone BAE Lightning F.6 glints in the evening sunshine as it returns from a sortie over the North Sea in the late 1970s. |
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