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Aviation History
1940
1940 - 2415.PDF
FLIGHT, August 29, 1940 a SKY- SWEEPING How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant Against foul fiends, to aid us militant ? —Spenser T17ATCHING and waiting for the enemy are the key * ' words of the Fighter Command Squadrons who have thrilled the whole world—the German Lujtwaffe included— with their handling of the recent mass air attacks. Highly skilled and devoted ground crews keep the machines—Hurricanes, Spitfires, Defiants or Fighter Blen- heims—in perfect trim and in a state of instant readiness, while the Observer Corps with their plane tables plot the course of the raiders. This and other information is passed via report centres to Operations H.Q. of the Fighter Com- mand. Pilots whose trick of duty it is are already in flying overalls and close to their machines. ^wSOT^W*^ ;-.**•
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