FIGHTER NEED TO CONTINUE

Nearly 50 years ago, Britain's secretary of state for air, Duncan Sandys, announced in the House of Commons that missiles would replace pilots flying combat aircraft and that the supersonic Lightning would be the Royal Air Force's last manned fighter. For those of us pilot-officers then going...

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