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Aviation Art Prints  Countries UK Squadron Index More Squadrons Squadrons 1 to 21  No.5 Sqn |
[UP] - No.1 Sqn - No.2 Sqn - No.3 Sqn - No.3 Sqn RAAF - No.4 Sqn AFC - No.5 Sqn - No.6 Sqn - No.7 Sqn - No.8 Sqn - No.9 Sqn - No.10 Naval Sqn - No.10 Sqn - No.11 Sqn - No.12 Sqn - No.14 Sqn - No.15 Sqn - No.16 Sqn - No.16 Sqn RNZAF - No.17 Sqn - No.19 Sqn - No.20 Sqn - No.21 Sqn |
No.5 Sqn
Country : UK
Founded : 26th July 1913
Codes : , 7B, MR, OQ, QN,
Frangas non flectas - Thou mayst break but shall not bend me
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Tribute to William Pitt-Brown by Ivan Berryman. William Pitt-Brown was a ground-attack Typhoon pilot during the Normandy campaign. Prior to this he served on the North-West Frontier flying Wapati and Valencia aircraft with No.31 Sqn, before flying Curtiss Mohawks with No.5 Sqn on the Arakan and Imphal fronts in the Burma campaign. During the Normandy campaign, he commanded No.174 Sqn the led 121 Wing, completing more than 100 missions. Shown here in Curtiss Mohawk IV of No.5 Sqn, Arakan, William Pitt-Brown went on to high command of the Royal Air Force. |
Portrait of Power by Keith Woodcock. Lightning F6s of 5 squadron taking off from Binbrook in the 1970s. This squadron first flew the Lightning (an earlier mark) in October 1965. It was the first truly supersonic fighter to see service with the RAF and was the mainstay of Britains air defence during the cold war, finally replaced by the Tornado F3 in 1988. |
Lightning QRA Intercept by Michael Rondot. No.5 Sqn and No.11 Sqn Lightnings intercept a Tu-95 Bear, supported by an essential Victor tanker. QRA, day and night, 24hrs a day, 7 days a week 52 weeks a year, 365 days a year - never a day off, always ready! Over and over again for so many years, the air defences of Britain were regularly tested by Russian Tu-95 Bears as they probed NATO airspace high above the North Sea. |
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