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  • Darcie beats the deployment blues

    BENSON-BASED four-year-old Darcie Sparey netted a kids’ charity award for battling the deployment blues while her crewman dad serves with the Oxfordshire stationís frontline helicopter force.

  • Witt win

    RAF CATERING cooked up a footballing storm with its annual five-a-side cup tournament going the way of RAF Wittering A.

  • Refusing to wilt in Wilts

    IT WAS every skater for themselves at this year’s Castle Combe six-hour endurance event, with RAF personnel producing top 10 finishes at the Wiltshire race circuit.

  • Benson do the double

    THERE WAS UKAF Tri-Service Cup Winners Cup glory for RAF Benson in the outdoor hockey at HMS Temeraire.

  • League leaders

    SERVICE RUGBY league is back and RAF head coach Sgt James Hutchinson is aiming to see his championship-winning side defend their title over the autumn Inter-Services series.

  • Tennis is 4 All

    ANY PERSONNEL who fancy making a racquet can take advantage of the Tennis Association’s T4All project, held monthly.

  • Atlas eyes boat drop kit

    A400M TRANSPORTERS will be able to launch rigid-hulled inflatable boats after a Welsh company won a £25m deal to enhance the aircraft’s capability.

  • Ghost hunt

    HOT WEATHER testing of Britain’s latest unmanned aerial system has taken place in Cyprus.

  • Sky Sabre £118m lift

    BRITAIN’S AIR defences are to be beefed up with systems accurate enough to hit a tennis ball travelling twice the speed of sound.

  • Charity to target younger vets

    THE ROYAL British Legion has announced a new 10-year strategy to support the changing needs of Britain’s Armed Forces community as the number of younger veterans increases.

  • Missing pilot is identified

    AIR FORCE historians have revealed how they helped identify a pilot killed during the Battle of Britain and mistakenly buried as an ‘unknown soldier’.

  • CAS debut at Cranwell

    NEW CHIEF of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Harv Smyth inspected an RAF Regiment Guard of Honour at Cranwell for the first time since taking the top job.

  • RAF pair are a class act

    SNETTERTON WAS the venue as the RAF sidecar duo recorded their first class victory as the SSD entered its penultimate round.

  • Athletes go distance

    THERE’LL BE no rest for the Service’s triathletes as they close out the season with a series of testing events beginning in Nottingham and ending at Hever Castle in Kent.

  • Officers meet in World Cup

    RAF WOMEN’S rugby will make history at the World Cup quarterfinals when Flt Lts Amy Cokayne and Sarah Bonar face off in Bristol.

  • Drone busters

    NEW WAYS to jam and destroy incoming enemy drones from the ground are being sought by defence experts.

  • Chaplain’s charity role

    THE RAF’S Chaplain-in-Chief is to take on the spiritual welfare of Forces veterans with the Royal British Legion as its new National Chaplain.

  • Space Cadets

    AIR CADETS got a week-long look at the world of space and airpower during their annual summer camp to RAF Syerston.

  • Correction

    IN AN article in the July 25 edition (1613) of RAF News on the final flight of a Saudi-based Tornado by Flt Lt Nick Cogley, we wrongly identified RAF officer Sqn Ldr Mohammad Tahir Jamil as a Royal Saudi Air Force officer. We are happy to correct this error.