Service The health ' s e c r Fo ite chief favourer named pap ● See page 9
RAF hot jets in the Cold War ● See R'n'R page 5
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Veteran WOs who go with the Yeo – meet the Air Power at The Tower Darts
Arrows fly at Leeming
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Sailing RAF rule the waves
Pacific heights
See pages 14-15
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Rugby league
Tri-nations dominance
Simon Mander
F-35 NATIONS are raising the airpower stakes in the South Pacific as Allied forces launch the biggest ever war drill to take place off the coast of Australia. Air combat sorties have seen RAAF, RAF and US F-35 pilots swap seats and fly each other’s
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aircraft in a world first to demonstrate the interoperability of the Lockheed fifth-generation stealth fighter. More than 3,000 UK military personnel joined 35,000 frontline fighters from 19 countries for Exercise Talisman Sabre to counter rising tensions in the region and safeguard global trade routes. ● Continues on page 3