Military Aviation – “So, your new jet is called the Eagle?”
David Gledhill takes us back to 1979, when the RAF’s Germany-based F-4 Phantoms met the new kid on the block for the first time – the F-15A Eagle.
Read MorePosted by Dave Gledhill | Dec 1, 2016 | Aviation History and Nostalgia, Feature, Military Aviation
David Gledhill takes us back to 1979, when the RAF’s Germany-based F-4 Phantoms met the new kid on the block for the first time – the F-15A Eagle.
Read MorePosted by Dave Gledhill | Mar 6, 2015 | Feature, Military Aviation
To commemorate the release of his new book about the aircraft, former RAF navigator Dave Gledhill tells the story of the Tornado ADV.
Read MorePosted by Dave Gledhill | Aug 18, 2014 | Aviation History and Nostalgia, Aviation News
Dave Gledhill, GAR’s resident former Phantom Navigator, explains why saving XV582, ‘Black Mike’, is so important – and what you can do to help.
Read MorePosted by Dave Gledhill | Jun 13, 2014 | Exercises and Deployments, Feature, Military Aviation
As the World Cup gets under-way in Brazil, another international contest was being waged over the skies of Lincolnshire and The North Sea, between RAF Typhoons of 41(R) Test and Evaluation Squadron and Saab JAS39 Gripens of the Operational Test and Evaluation Unit of the Swedish Air Force. Dave Gledhill went to RAF Coningsby to learn more.
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