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Aviation History
1956
1956 - 1768.PDF
932 FLIGHT SWIFT AS AN ARROW 'T'HE fastest low-level reconnaissance aircraft employed by any air force is the Vickers-Super- •*- marine Swift F.R.5, subject of a leading article in this issue. Two squadrons—Nos. 2 and 79— are now equipped with this Rolls-Royce Avon-powered single seater, and both are components of the 2nd Allied Tactical Air Force, operating in Germany. These very impressive pictures show machines of No. 79 Squadron, which is commanded by S/L. N. K. McCallum, D.F.C., A.F.C., and has as its distinctive marking a red arrow, seen emblazoned on the fuselage sides. Below, a Swift is glimpsed as it flashes across the Mohne Dam—so well remembered by theR.A.F. from more troubled times; and at lower right four machines are grouped in a workmanlike echelon. The fighter/reconnais- sance Swift carries vertical and oblique cameras and is armed with two 30 mm Aden guns. mm
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