Summary: It’s logbook time again and you may recall that I was as freshly a minted A1 QFI as there could be and I had just left the training world to return to the front line on my old Squadron, the Fighting Cocks. I had been in Wales for<br> over 4 years and in that time the faces I knew on 43 Sqn had almost all gone... it was like I was joining a unit of strangers.<br> <br> <br> <br> The Q Shed<br> <br> <br> <br> Additional armed aircraft ready to go onto QRA<br> <br> <br> <br> The F4 tank limiting speeds<br> <br> <br> <br> A Soviet Badger trying to sneak past at low level<br> <br> <br> <br> An F4 tanking from a converted Victor V Bomber<br> <br> <br> <br> Decimomannu Air Base<br> <br> <br> <br> How the ACMI Air Combat Manoeuvering Instrumentation worked<br> <br> <br> <br> The Men of Harlech near Llanbedr<br> <br> <br> <br> The Jindavik target drone<br> <br> <br> <br> A frame from the Jindavik cameras showing a Sidewinder about to impact the towed flare target<br> <br> <br> <br> My new navigator, Coolhand<br> <br> <br> <br> A 43(F) Sqn Phantom<br> <br> <br> <br> Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to the RAF, the USAF, RuthAS and Mike Freer.
