Fighting Cocks - Mug CH-47 Chinook low-level air photography

low-level air photography

This profile is a Harrier GR3 ZZ993 stationed at RAF Gütersloh in 1989

finishing off with the F

The nickname 'WOKKA' comes from the distinctive sound made by the 60ft diameter twin rotors chopping the air

This profile is a Typhoon FGR4 of 29(R)SQN RAF Coningsby

Fighting Cocks - Mug CH-47 Chinook low-level air photographyNo. 43 Squadron RAF 'The Fighting Cocks' No. 43 Squadron was formed in Stirling, Scotland, in 1916 as part of the Royal Flying Corps. During the Great War the squadron operated Sopwith Strutters, Camels and Snipes. In 1926 the squadron flew the Gloster Gamecock earning its nickname 'The Fighting Cocks'. Siskins and Hawker Fury's were the squadrons aircraft leading up to World War 2. Hurricanes and Spitfires followed prior to the jet age which saw the