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Aviation History
1953
1953 - 0665.PDF
FLIGHT, 29 May 1953 659 THE QUEEN'S AIR FORCES "FLIGHT" COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS "From Eddystone to Berwick bounds, from Lynn to Milford Bay, That time of slumber was as bright and busy as the day . . ." For the Great Armada read enemy bombers; for the "warning radiance" of the beacons in Macaulay's poem, the modern miracle of radar; for the little ships of Elizabeth I, the Meteor and Vampire night fighters of Elizabeth II. In service today are Vampire N.F.Ws (above) and Meteor N.F.11s (below). Both types are armed with four 20 mm guns and carry a pilot and radar operator—seated side by side in the Vampire, tandem-wise in the Meteor. On the left, over North Germany, are Venom F.B.1 fighter/bombers of the 2nd Tactical Air Force. For high- altitude interception or low-level attack these single-seaters are equally effective.
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