HMS Queen Elizabeth leaving Gibraltar
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Adjutant of the York Regiment takes part in the Aggressive Warm-up exercise on Cold Weather Training in Estonia with the Mountain Leaders of the Royal Marines. The whole body, including head must be fully submerged before answering a series of questions to be granted permission to leave ‘Neptune’s Playpen’.

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The Avro Lancaster with the Royal Air Force's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight based at RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire is silhouetted against the setting sun.
Sgt Jack Pritchard RAF
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A Swordfish aircraft with the Royal Navy Historic Flight. The Swordfish evolved from the prototype Fairey TSR.II (Torpedo Spotter Reconnaissance), designed by Marcel Lobelle and HE Chaplin of the Fairey Aviation Company Ltd., first flew in 1934 and entered service with No.825 Squadron in 1936. In all, 2391 aircraft were built, the first 692 machines by Fairey Aviation and the remainder under licence by Blackburn Aircraft Company at their works at Sherburn-in-Elmet and Brough, Yorkshire. In service the Blackburn-built aircraft became unofficially known as "Blackfish". Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of this very distinguished aircraft was its longevity. Although by all normal standards it was already obsolete at the outbreak of WW2, it confounded everyone by remaining in operational service throughout the whole of the war, and thereby gained the distinction of being the last British bi-plane to see active service. Indeed, it outlasted its intended replacement, the Albacore, which disappeared from front-line service in 1943. The Royal Navy Historic Flight are the guardians of the Fleet Air Arm’s proud history, upholding the memory of naval aviators by keeping vintage aircraft airborne.
LA(PHOT) Abbie Herron
LA(Phot) Keith Morgan
CPOA Susan Emery
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