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245 10 A Century of Air Warfare With Nine (IX) Squadron, RAF
       |h[Elektronisk resurs] /|cGordon Thorburn 
264  1 |bPen and Sword,|c2022 
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520    n the earliest days of World War One, when IX Squadron was
       formed, we went to the fight in little 50mph machines that
       were barely capable of taking pilot and observer, a gun 
       and a few small, hand-held bombs into the sky, especially 
       on a windy day. When we took a wireless set, to spot for 
       the artillery and report on troop movements, the extra 
       load forced the defenceless pilot to leave his observer 
       behind.

A century later, IX (B) Squadron 
       flies jets that can exceed the speed of sound, place laser
       -guided missiles within a few centimetres of the target, 
       and transmit the most complex data in real time across the
       globe.

In between, the tale is of ponderous 
       beasts of biplanes, of Wellingtons and Lancasters in the 
       bloody battles of World War Two, of Canberras and Vulcans 
       in the nuclear age of the Cold War.

Above all,
       it's the story of the men and women of the RAF's senior 
       bomber squadron across a hundred years of war and peace, 
       and their words fill this book. We go from those 
       beginnings in wood, wire and fabric kites over France and 
       a pilot armed with a service revolver, to the world's 
       first Tornado squadron in the Gulf wars, over Kosovo and 
       Afghanistan, and so to the present, a century on.
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       #8232;It really is one hell of a story. [Elib] 
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655  4 Samhälle & politik 
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