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Royal Air Force News Friday, May 3, 2019 P3

“ The aim was to

win a gold in order
to help qualify for “ Imagine
the Worlds in June completing a gym When it was all over
” workout whilst “
trying to play the I felt bereft and thought,
‘What am I going to do?’
piano at the same ”
time Joe McFadden,
” currently on

Typhoon display tour with The
pilot Flt Lt Jim House on Cold
Peterson Hill, talks
p10 Strictly 2017
Flt Lt Jonathan Maflin RnR p4-p5
on his BJJ gold medal
win at the Munich
International Open
p29
Ladies United in win

● Continued from front CHEERS AND TEARS: Main,
As the tears ran following a win the team embrace after the final
giving the RAF women their first whistle, inset, crying tears of joy
ever IS title by breaking the Army’s PHOTOS: SBS
stranglehold on the tournament,
Siczowa added: “This win was
started by the retired players who
built the foundations, the managers
and this squad of 23.”
A good crowd at a windy
RAF News Kingsholm ground, home of
Room 68 Gloucester RFU, saw the RAF take
Lancaster Building an early 5-0 lead through Cpl Annie
HQ Air Command Forbes out wide.
High Wycombe A nervous RAF side let
Buckinghamshire numerous chances slip away until
HP14 4UE Plt Off Amy Cokayne added to
the dominant display with another
Editor: Simon Williams unconverted try after 25 minutes.
Email: editor@rafnews.co.uk Live-wire Off Cdt Lucy Nye
Tel: 01494 497412 then jinked inside to score after 39
minutes for 15-0.
Sports Editor: Daniel Abrahams The blitz continued in the second
Email: sports@rafnews.co.uk half as SAC(T) Kate Edwards broke
Tel: 01494 497563 the line to score a 52 -minute try.
nd
She could not convert her score
Features Editor: Tracey Allen as the wind continued to wreak
Email: tracey.allen@rafnews.co.uk havoc, but she did slot over a 65 -
th
Tel: 01494 497622 minute penalty, before two scores
from the Army, which could not Wg Cdr Howard Parr’s team could ■ For a full IS round-up see next
News Editor: Simon Mander knock the RAF off the lofty perch not get their championship bid edition of RAF News.
of Inter-Services champions. kickstarted, crashing out with 49-3
All advertising: The men’s game followed, but defeat.
Edwin Rodrigues
Tel: 07482 571535
Email: edwin.rodrigues@rafnews. This Week In History
co.uk
Subscriptions and 1941
distribution:
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26 Whitehall Road Unit is launched
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Email: rafnews@jpress.co.uk (MSFU) with Hurricanes, was
formed at Speke, Liverpool.
1945
Mosquito men 1942 1958
in Rangoon Operation Flintham Nuclear Canberra
Wg Cdr A.E. Saunders, OC No A Catalina of no.210 Sqn, flown by Canberra Sqns of the RAF’s
10 Sqn landed his Mosquito Flt Lt D.E. Healy, carried out the second Tactical AF in Germany
at a deserted Mingaladon first of a series of reconnaissence acquired nuclear strike capability.
Airfield, before, with his nav, flights to Spitsbergen to establish Extracts from The Royal Air Force
walking to Rangoon, to be the support for Russian convoys and Day By Day by Air Cdre Graham
first people to enter the city. transports. Pitchfork (Sutton Publishing).