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2014-08-22

Video: "100 Years Apart: Flying Over the Frontline"






From BE-2 biplane to Tornado GR4 fast jet, spanning more than a Century; one of the oldest fixed wing Squadrons in the World marks its 102nd anniversary.

Filmed on 14 May 1914 at Seaton Carew, West Hartlepool. Officer Commanding No 2 Sqn Royal Flying Corps, Major CJ Hawke, demonstrates state of the art flying manoeuvres to the general public. 100 years later the sun rises on Tornado aircraft launching on a close air support mission from Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, representing the missions of No II (Army Cooperation) Squadron Royal Air Force on 14 May 2014.

In memory of those who flew and fought before us #WW1RAF

Archive Footage: II (AC) Sqn Association www.twosqnassoc.co.uk

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