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  • Hawk jets of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team perform training display over the skies above their Lincolnshire home. Overhead they fly near an old MoD landing light at the end of the airfield runway at RAF Scampton. This is an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. In front of a local crowd at the airfield they practice a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. Their objective is to appear perfectly spaced from a ground perspective are seen below. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
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  • Napier Barracks in Folkestone Kent, recently taken over by the UK home office to be turned into an assessment and dispersal facility for asylum seekers on the 15th of September 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom.  Napier barracks was part of Shorncliffe military base, the MOD have sold off large parts of land in recent years for housing development.
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  • Vintage Lambretta mopeds on Brick Lane, East London, UK. Lambretta was a line of motor scooters originally manufactured in Milan, Italy by Innocenti. They are now very much sought after by collectors and in particular people interested in the Mod era.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, consult technical information on Ministry of Defence (MoD) computers. Outside the old building's windows (once the hangars of the famous Dambusters 617 Squadron) is an old Gnat once used by the team. They are members of the team's support ground crew who outnumber the pilots 8:1 and without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly.  Eleven trades are imported from some sixty that the RAF employs and teaches. Eleven trades are imported from some sixty that the RAF employs and teaches.
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  • Napier Barracks in Folkestone Kent, recently taken over by the UK home office to be turned into an assessment and dispersal facility for asylum seekers on the 15th of September 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom.  Napier barracks was part of Shorncliffe military base, the MOD have sold off large parts of land in recent years for housing development.
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  • Napier Barracks in Folkestone Kent, recently taken over by the UK home office to be turned into an assessment and dispersal facility for asylum seekers on the 15th of September 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom.  Napier barracks was part of Shorncliffe military base, the MOD have sold off large parts of land in recent years for housing development.
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  • Vintage Lambretta mopeds on Brick Lane, East London, UK. Lambretta was a line of motor scooters originally manufactured in Milan, Italy by Innocenti. They are now very much sought after by collectors and in particular people interested in the Mod era.
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  • Flight Lieutenants Steve Underwood and Anthony Parkinson and Wing Commander Bill Ramsey of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, discuss logistics beneath the emblems of long-disbanded fighter squadrons which decorate the squadron building at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. They sit in faded pink armchairs supplied by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) that are seen in many RAF stations and airfields with the same drab blue paint on the walls. Painted by hand are circular badges  with bold colours (colors) and illustrations of birds of prey, fighter-jets, swords and shields which all symbolise  warfare. The three pilots are relaxed wearing their red flying suits with their sunglasses dangling in the regulation loop, they are holding a bottle of mineral water and a coffee cup.
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  • Flight Lieutenant Simon Stevens, a pilot in the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, makes a pre-flight check of his Hawk jet aircraft before a practice flight at RAF Scampton. Stevens and his fellow-aviators fly up to 6 times in winter training, learning new manoeuvres. The dangers of high-speed close formation flight makes health and safety precautions vital; the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Royal Air Force take working environments of their personnel seriously so pre-flight examination of aircraft happens before every sortie (flight). Performing the brief safety walk-around, Stevens bends at the waste to avoid the aeroplane's low aileron despite wearing a helmet, full flying suit, boots, life-vest and anti-g-pants. Flying still continues despite rain clouds in the gloomy Lincolnshire sky.
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  • Perimeter fence and Mod sign at the former nuclear weapons-era airfield occupied by US Air force personnel during the Cold War and now vacant, awaiting re-landscaping and returning to common parkland for the public to use. Opened in 1942, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces during World War II and the United States Air Force during the Cold War. After the Cold War ended, it was closed in 1993. The airfield was also known for the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp held outside its gates in the 1980s. In 1997 Greenham Common was designated as public parkland.
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  • Shorncliffe Heights, a brand new Taylor Wimpey housing development being built on the former Ministry Of Defence military site of Shorncliffe Barracks on the 15th of September 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom.  This was part of Shorncliffe military base, the MOD have sold off large parts of land in recent years for housing development.
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  • Shorncliffe Heights, a brand new Taylor Wimpey housing development being built on the former Ministry Of Defence military site of Shorncliffe Barracks on the 15th of September 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom.  This was part of Shorncliffe military base, the MOD have sold off large parts of land in recent years for housing development.
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  • Napier Barracks, recently taken over by the UK home office to be turned into an assessment and dispersal facility for asylum seekers on 21st September 2020 in Folkestone, Kent, Untied Kingdom.  Napier barracks was part of Shorncliffe military base, the MOD have sold off large parts of land in recent years for housing development.
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  • Napier Barracks in Folkestone Kent, recently taken over by the UK home office to be turned into an assessment and dispersal facility for asylum seekers on the 15th of September 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom.  Napier barracks was part of Shorncliffe military base, the MOD have sold off large parts of land in recent years for housing development.
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  • Napier Barracks in Folkestone Kent, recently taken over by the UK home office to be turned into an assessment and dispersal facility for asylum seekers on the 15th of September 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom.  Napier barracks was part of Shorncliffe military base, the MOD have sold off large parts of land in recent years for housing development.
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  • Napier Barracks in Folkestone Kent, recently taken over by the UK home office to be turned into an assessment and dispersal facility for asylum seekers on the 15th of September 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom.  Napier barracks was part of Shorncliffe military base, the MOD have sold off large parts of land in recent years for housing development.
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  • Napier Barracks in Folkestone Kent, recently taken over by the UK home office to be turned into an assessment and dispersal facility for asylum seekers on the 15th of September 2020 in Folkestone, United Kingdom.  Napier barracks was part of Shorncliffe military base, the MOD have sold off large parts of land in recent years for housing development.
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  • Using a map of the middle-eastern Gulf region, Major General Alex Harley, Director of Operations during the Gulf War, briefs the media at the Ministery of Defence, on 10th August 1990, in London, England. General Sir Alexander George Hamilton Harley, KBE, CB born 1941 is now a retired British Army officer and former Adjutant-General to the Forces.
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  • Security guards ready to open the gate to the first taxi arrives of the new intake of asylum seekers arrive at Napier barracks on the 9th of April 2021 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. Despite many criticisms of the site including a damning report from the HM Inspectorate of Prisons declaring the camp filthy and impoverished and Public Health England declaring the accommodation unsuitable durning a pandemic the Home Office continues to place vulnerable people in the former military barracks.
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  • The first taxi arrives of the new intake of asylum seekers arrive at Napier barracks on the 9th of April 2021 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. Despite many criticisms of the site including a damning report from the HM Inspectorate of Prisons declaring the camp filthy and impoverished and Public Health England declaring the accommodation unsuitable durning a pandemic the Home Office continues to place vulnerable people in the former military barracks.
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  • The first taxi arrives of the new intake of asylum seekers arrive at Napier barracks on the 9th of April 2021 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. Despite many criticisms of the site including a damning report from the HM Inspectorate of Prisons declaring the camp filthy and impoverished and Public Health England declaring the accommodation unsuitable durning a pandemic the Home Office continues to place vulnerable people in the former military barracks.
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  • The first taxi arrives of the new intake of asylum seekers arrive at Napier barracks on the 9th of April 2021 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. Despite many criticisms of the site including a damning report from the HM Inspectorate of Prisons declaring the camp filthy and impoverished and Public Health England declaring the accommodation unsuitable durning a pandemic the Home Office continues to place vulnerable people in the former military barracks.
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  • The first taxi arrives of the new intake of asylum seekers arrive at Napier barracks on the 9th of April 2021 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. Despite many criticisms of the site including a damning report from the HM Inspectorate of Prisons declaring the camp filthy and impoverished and Public Health England declaring the accommodation unsuitable durning a pandemic the Home Office continues to place vulnerable people in the former military barracks.
    UK-Napier-Barracks-2568.jpg
  • Brick Lane in Shoreditch is pretty much the epicentre of street style fashion in the London, United Kingdom. With an ingrained history of vintage and bohemian styling, this is the area to come to if you want to find how the makeshift pioneers of cool do it. Thrown together, some more considered, or the effortlessly stylish clothes are always on show.
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  • A safety sign at in English, American, Kurdish and Arabic to protect people against the spread of COVID-19 at the entrance to Napier Barracks on the 9th of March 2021 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. The sign asks people to stay 2 meters apart, protect yourself and others, always wear a mask and sanitise your hands. Over 400 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19. In January 2021 over 200 people inside the centre tested positive for COVID-19.
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  • Snow falling at Napier Barracks, on the 7th of February 2021, Folkestone, United Kingdom. Men are locked up in accommodation inside Napier Barracks due to COVID-19 restrictions, Over 100 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19. 3 people living inside the barracks have attempted suicide in 2021 already.
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  • Police vehicles stationed outside Napier Barracks in the snow, on the 7th of February 2021, Folkestone, United Kingdom. The police have been forcing anyone who leaves back inside Napier Barracks due to COVID-19 restrictions, sometimes even carrying them back through the gates.Over 400 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19. 3 people living inside the barracks have attempted suicide in 2021 already.
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  • As a local dog-walker passes-by, we see a Royal Air Force Puma troop-carrying helicopter land briefly in Ruskin Park in the south London borough of Lambeth. It is believed that the RAF use various public spaces as part of emergency landing/evacuation location familiarisation in readiness of a future national emergency.  The Puma (registration XW216 from 230 Squadron, RAF Benson) is used as battlefield helicopters within the Joint Helicopter Command and provide tactical troop and load movement by day or by night.
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  • A row or Royal Artillery horsemen during the annual Trooping of the Colour parade in the Mall. With swords drawn, the row of fine horse mounted soldiers parade along the Mall towards the parade ground at Horseguards. The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA), is the artillery arm of the British Army. Despite its name, it comprises a number of regiments. The introduction of artillery into the English Army came as early as the Battle of Crécy in 1346
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  • As an RAF crewman watches through open door his Sea King helicopter, the Wing Commander of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team rides in the back of the aircraft. They crew are travelling between Guernsey and Jersey in the Channel Islands  where the team are about to perform another of the air shows they appear at. Since 1965 the squadron have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries. During a forthcoming calendar of appearances at air shows and fly-pasts across the UK and a few European venues they are an important recruiting tool for future personnel – of pilots and ground-based trades.
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  • Pilots of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team watch other aviators' display flying during airshow. Officer pilots of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, lean against the nose of their Hawk jet before themselves flying their own air display. Their leaning curve is steep, even for these accomplished fast-jet aviators who had already accumulated 1,500 hours in fighters. By Summer they need every aspect of their 25-minute displays honed to perfection.
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  • Sergeant David Ablard with a fellow rigger of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team,gets to gripds with an air brake issue  make repairs. They are engineers with the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team and one cleans the part of the team's Mk 1 Hawk after a repair during the Fairford airshow (RIAT). They are members of the team's support ground crew who outnumber the pilots 8:1 and without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly. Eleven trades are imported from some sixty that the RAF employs and teaches.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, in the build-up to the Fairford airshow. In the build-up before the show starts, the ground crew organise themselves seen from inside the team coach. They are members of the team's support ground crew who outnumber the pilots 8:1 and without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly.  Eleven trades are imported from some sixty that the RAF employs and teaches. Eleven trades are imported from some sixty that the RAF employs and teaches.
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  • Scheduled maintenance on a Hawk Mk 1 jet in the hangar of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team. Engineering specialists called the Blues perform routine maintenance in the Red Arrows team hangar. They are ground-based back-up crew (so-called after their distinctive blue overalls worn only during the summer) and perform routine engineering tasks in the hangar at RAF Scampton, then while on tour, keeping the jets serviceable and ready to display. The Blues outnumber the pilots 8:1. Without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly. Some of the team's Hawks are 25 years old and their air frames require constant attention, with increasingly frequent major overhauls due.
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  • A civilian weather forecaster passes on airfield meteorology news to the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team from his office desk at RAF Cranwell, England. Referring to the information on his screen he talks to one of the aeriobatic team members in another part of the airfield before an important flight display later that day.
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  • Military air traffic controller Flight Lieutenant Barrie Robinson is on duty in the control tower at RAF Scampton, home base of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team. RAF controllers liaise with civilian air authorities to ensure safe travel for any aircraft using their airspace, manning communications and airfield safety, the officer wears a headset with which to speak to air crew and ground-based personnel. Scampton is not the busy airfield that other stations are where larger squadrons are based but the Red Arrows fly their training sorties from here up to six times a day in the winter months then use this as a base from which to fly their summer air shows.
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  • Young air cadet sits in Hawk cockpit of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team during visit to RAF Scampton. RAF students visit this base on a regular basis to learn about their heroes who fly air displays around the UK and Europe. The young lad has been given the chance to sit in the cockpit of this BAE Systems hawk, sitting in the Martin-Baker ejection seat that helps saves lives in the world's jet fighters.
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  • The Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, perform their public display over a landscape of the Thames estuary mud.<br />
During the annual Southend Air show on the Thames river estuary, the jets of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team, perform their Corkscrew manoeuvre, a fly-past 100 feet (30m) off the ground. Children playing on the low-tide mud pause from digging holes with a bucket and spade as the aircraft make their way over boating and mudflats. The Red Arrows Hawks perform throughout their calendar of appearances at air shows and fly-pasts across the UK and a few European venues. Since 1965 the squadron have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries and are an important part of Britain's summer events where aerobatics aircraft perform their manoeuvres in front of massed crowds.
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  • Flight Lieutenant Dan Simmons of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, zips up his g-pants before climbing into his Hawk jet. G-pants counteract the effects of high gravity stresses that jet-fighters impose on the human body, automatically inflating and squeezing blood back to the thorax and head when blood drains towards the legs. As he attaches the zipper, he rests his straight right leg on a retractable step which helps him and his ground crew engineers to gain access to the cockpit, high above the ground. Hanging from another part of his airplane is his life-vest which he will wear around his neck, whilst in flight. Flight Lieutenant Simmons wears heavy-duty black boots which are regulation footwear for flying personnel and dressed in his red flying suit that is famous around the world.
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  • Single pilot of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team walks out to his Hawk aircraft before a display flight to Jordan. In the mid-day heat, Flt. Lt. Jez Griggs is a member of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. Here he walks out alone to his aircraft, which is lined up with some of the others jets at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus before flying out to Marka in Jordan for the first display of the year. The Red Arrows arrive each April to fine-tune their air show skills in the clear Mediterranean skies and continue their busy display calendar above the skies of the UK and other European show circuit. We see Griggs carrying his flight bag and life-vest. He paces confidently across the bright 'apron' dressed in his famous red flying suit that the Red Arrows have made famous since 1965. He is alone and striding confidently towards the matching red eight Hawk airplanes.
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  • Pilot of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team performs a pre-flight check before training flight. Flt. Lt. Si Stevens of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, walks around his  Hawk jet at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. He will fly up to 6 times daily during this winter training, when weather permits, learning new manoeuvres. Wearing winter green flying suits, their day is spent flying and de-briefing. Stevens wears a green flying suit with anti-g pants and helmet on with its pilot number. He is being followed by a member of the team's support ground crew who outnumber the pilots 8:1. The engineer wears a fluorescent yellow tabard and stands politely by the waiting aircraft on the 'line'. He has already prepared it for flight and helps with any technical issues that may arise.
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  • Corporal Chris Ward, one of the photographers belonging to the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, reads a novel while wrapped up in sleeping bag and hammock aboard a C-130 Hercules transport aircraft during a two-day journey from RAF Scampton to RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. Corporal Ward has established for himself a comfortable nest in the rear section at the loading ramp. The interior is basic with sharp corners but the walls are padded.  Ward wears a heavy camouflaged coat to counteract the cold and ear-plugs from the droning engines. The Red Arrows pilots fly their Hawk jet aircraft to air shows but on long journeys requiring the support of ground crew borrow RAF transporters that fly behind the main airborne squadron shipping 10 tons of spares and personal effects for their six-week winter training stay.
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  • Engineering ground staff of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, during turnarounds of training flights. Wearing ear-defenders, military green overalls and fluorescent tabard, a 'line' engineer from the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, inspect the avionics of a Hawk aircraft immediately after a winter training flight at the team's headquarters at a damp RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. The men are members of the team's support ground crew (called the Blues because of their distinctive blue overalls worn at summer air shows). The team's support ground crew who outnumber the pilots 8:1 and without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly. Eleven trades are imported from some sixty that the RAF employs and teaches.
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  • Engineering ground staff member of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team, tests red smoke canister in a regular safety procedure. The man belongs to a team of highly-skilled engineers known as the  'Blues' who support the pilots known as the Reds. Eleven trades skills are imported from some sixty that the Royal Air Force (RAF) employs and teaches. The better-educated officers in the armed forces enjoy a more privileged lifestyle than their support staff. In the aerobatic squadron, the Blues outnumber the pilots 8:1. Without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly.
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  • A Parachute Regiment recruit is in mid-flight and leaps across a wide space between scaffolding and a rope net during the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme. Seen in silhouette, the man is in full stretch, half-way between the gantry he leapt from and the rope net that he is about to meet. It is an image that describes a mid-point, a half-way position between safety and uncertainty. Known as the Trainasium, it is an 'Aerial Confidence Course' which is unique to P Company. In order to assess his suitability for military parachuting, the Trainasium tests a candiates ability to overcome fear and carry out simple activities and instructions at a height above ground level. Recruits wanting to join the British Army's Parachute Regiment held regularly at Catterick army barracks, Yorkshire, need to pass this and other tests before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
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  • On the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force RAF and following a flypast of 100 aircraft formations representing Britains air defence history which flew over central London, a Kenyan officer leaves Horseguards, passing the memorial to those killed in the 2002 Bali bombing, on 10th July 2018, in London, England.
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  • On the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force RAF and before an historic flypast of 100 aircraft formations representing Britains air defence history which flew over central London, a guard of the RAF regiment lines the Mall, on 10th July 2018, in London, England.
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  • Soldiers of the Rifles regiment in the British army stand guarding the entrance to  the volleyball venue in central London next to the IOC rings logo on day 4 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. A further 1,200 military personnel are being deployed to help secure the 2012 Olympics in London following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
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  • A sailor walks down the gangplank beneath the giant hull of their ship during a tour by the general public on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious during a public open-day in Greenwich. Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its forthcoming decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
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  • Emergency fire muster station point on-board the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious. Illustrious is the second of three Invincible-class light aircraft carriers built for the Royal Navy in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She is the fifth warship and second aircraft carrier to bear the name Illustrious, and is affectionately known to her crew as "Lusty". She is the oldest ship in the Royal Navy's active fleet , expected  to be  withdrawn from service in 2014 (after 32 years' service).
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  • An AgustaWestland AW101 makes a controlled landing in a south London public park. After circling for 5 minutes in windy conditions and hovered metres above the ground n Ruskin Park, south London. Autumn leaves flew in all directions in this regular landing point for the Royal Air Force and army. The RAF frequently make reconnaissance flights to this Lambeth open space for crew training purposes. The Merlin is a medium-lift helicopter used in both military and civil applications. It was developed by joint venture between Westland Helicopters in the UK and Agusta in Italy and was named the EH101 until 2007.
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  • Nepali boys pose for a group photo under Kathmandu's Boudhanath Stupa after recruitment into the British Gurkhas. Trying for places in the Gurkha Regiment is part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. They will need to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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  • Cases of Rapier surface-to-air missile equipment stationed on Blackheath, a security measure in readiness for the London 2012 Olympic games. The Rapiers arrived in Blackheath yesterday in a bid to defend London against a "worst-case scenario" 9/11-style attack. As part of a multi-layered defence system installed around the capital during the games in July 2012, the missiles are positioned here and other sites during an exercise named Olympic Guardian, which began earlier this week on the coast and in London's airspace. RAF Air Vice-Marshall Stuart Atha said the missiles were for the "worst-case scenario" of a "very unlikely attack" on the Games and chose Blackheath as one of six "favourite" sites.
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  • Architectural detail of a missile silo door entrance at the former nuclear weapons-era airfield occupied by US Air force personnel during the Cold War and now vacant, awaiting re-landscaping and returning to common parkland for the public to use. Opened in 1942, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces during World War II and the United States Air Force during the Cold War. After the Cold War ended, it was closed in 1993. The airfield was also known for the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp held outside its gates in the 1980s. In 1997 Greenham Common was designated as public parkland.
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  • A portrait of a Lance Corporal in the Rifles regiment of the British army next to the Olympic rings logo before the start of the canoe slalom heats at the Lee Valley White Water Centre, north east London, on day 3 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. A further 1,200 military personnel are being deployed to help secure the 2012 Olympics in London following the failure by security contractor G4S to provide enough private guards. The extra personnel have been drafted in amid continuing fears that the private security contractor's handling of the £284m contract remains a risk to the Games.
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  • With his back to the Ministry of Defence main building in Whitehall, an elderly gentleman protests about war not welfare in Whitehall before Saudi Crown Princes Mohammed bin Salmans meeting with Prime Minister Theresa May in Downing Street, on 7th March 2018, in London England.
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  • Asylum seekers currently held inside Napier Barracks staged a peaceful protest outside the entrance to the barracks with banners and signs to demonstrate about the poor conditions they are subjected to inside the holding centre on the 12th of January 2021 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. Over 400 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19.
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  • Asylum seekers currently held inside Napier Barracks staged a peaceful protest outside the entrance to the barracks with banners and signs to demonstrate about the poor conditions they are subjected to inside the holding centre on the 12th of January 2021 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. Over 400 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19.
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  • Asylum seekers currently held inside Napier Barracks staged a peaceful protest outside the entrance to the barracks with banners and signs to demonstrate about the poor conditions they are subjected to inside the holding centre on the 12th of January 2021 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. Over 400 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19.
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  • Asylum seekers currently held inside Napier Barracks staged a peaceful protest outside the entrance to the barracks with banners and signs to demonstrate about the poor conditions they are subjected to inside the holding centre on the 12th of January 2021 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. Over 400 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19.
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  • Asylum seekers currently held inside Napier Barracks staged a peaceful protest outside the entrance to the barracks with banners and signs to demonstrate about the poor conditions they are subjected to inside the holding centre on the 12th of January 2021 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. Over 400 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19.
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  • A local man films the preparations taking place at Napier Barracks to welcome Asylum seekers at the new assessment and dispersal facility for asylum seekers on 21st September 2020 in Folkestone, Kent, Untied Kingdom.  Napier barracks was recently taken over by the UK home office and is part of Shorncliffe military base.
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  • Security preparations take place at Napier Barracks to welcome Asylum seekers at the new assessment and dispersal facility for asylum seekers on 21st September 2020 in Folkestone, Kent, Untied Kingdom.  Napier barracks was recently taken over by the UK home office and is part of Shorncliffe military base.
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  • Preparations take place at Napier Barracks to welcome Asylum seekers at the new assessment and dispersal facility for asylum seekers on 21st September 2020 in Folkestone, Kent, Untied Kingdom.  Napier barracks was recently taken over by the UK home office and is part of Shorncliffe military base.
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  • Asylum seekers currently held inside Napier Barracks have been sleeping outside a accommodation block in sub-zero temperatures as part of a protest against long delays in processing their asylum claims and the poor conditions they are subjected to inside the holding centre on the 12th of January 2021, Folkestone, United Kingdom. Over 400 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19.
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  • Asylum seekers currently held inside Napier Barracks have been sleeping outside a accommodation block in sub-zero temperatures as part of a protest against long delays in processing their asylum claims and the poor conditions they are subjected to inside the holding centre on the 12th of January 2021, Folkestone, United Kingdom. Over 400 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19.
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  • A young male Asylum seeker using the only entrance to get inside Napier Barracks on the 12th of January 2021, Folkestone, United Kingdom. Over 400 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19.
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  • A security guard opens the only entrance to access Napier Barracks on the 12th of January 2021, Folkestone United Kingdom. Over 400 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19.
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  • A safety sign at in English, American, Kurdish and Arabic to protect people against the spread of COVID-19 at the entrance to Napier Barracks on the 9th of March 2021 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. The sign asks people to stay 2 meters apart, protect yourself and others, always wear a mask and sanitise your hands. Over 400 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19. In January 2021 over 200 people inside the centre tested positive for COVID-19.
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  • A safety sign at in English, American, Kurdish and Arabic to protect people against the spread of COVID-19 at the entrance to Napier Barracks on the 9th of March 2021 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. The sign asks people to stay 2 meters apart, protect yourself and others, always wear a mask and sanitise your hands. Over 400 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19. In January 2021 over 200 people inside the centre tested positive for COVID-19.
    UK-Napier-Barracks-COVID-Safety-0450.jpg
  • A Police van stationed outside Napier Barracks in the snow, on the 7th of February 2021, Folkestone, United Kingdom. The police have been forcing anyone who leaves back inside Napier Barracks due to COVID-19 restrictions, sometimes even carrying them back through the gates.Over 400 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19. 3 people living inside the barracks have attempted suicide in 2021 already.
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  • Snow falling at Napier Barracks, on the 7th of February 2021, Folkestone, United Kingdom. Men are locked up in accommodation inside Napier Barracks due to COVID-19 restrictions, Over 100 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19. 3 people living inside the barracks have attempted suicide in 2021 already.
    UK-Home-Office-Napier-Barracks-9706.jpg
  • Snow falling at Napier Barracks, on the 7th of February 2021, Folkestone, United Kingdom. Men are locked up in accommodation inside Napier Barracks due to COVID-19 restrictions, Over 100 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19. 3 people living inside the barracks have attempted suicide in 2021 already.
    UK-Home-Office-Napier-Barracks-9656.jpg
  • Snow falling at Napier Barracks, on the 7th of February 2021, Folkestone, United Kingdom. Men are locked up in accommodation inside Napier Barracks due to COVID-19 restrictions, Over 100 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19. 3 people living inside the barracks have attempted suicide in 2021 already.
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  • Private security guards patrol the barracks patrol over Asylum seekers inside Napier Barracks on the 5th of February 2021, Folkestone Kent. Over 400 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19. 3 people living inside the barracks have attempted suicide in 2021 already.
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  • Private security guards patrol the barracks patrol over Asylum seekers inside Napier Barracks on the 5th of February 2021, Folkestone Kent. Over 400 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19. 3 people living inside the barracks have attempted suicide in 2021 already.
    UK-Home-Office-Napier-Barracks-9531.jpg
  • Asylum seekers inside Napier Barracks on the 5th of February 2021, Folkestone Kent. Over 400 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19. 3 people living inside the barracks have attempted suicide in 2021 already.
    UK-Home-Office-Napier-Barracks-9490.jpg
  • Private security guards patrol the barracks patrol over Asylum seekers inside Napier Barracks on the 5th of February 2021, Folkestone Kent. Over 400 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19. 3 people living inside the barracks have attempted suicide in 2021 already.
    UK-Home-Office-Napier-Barracks-9483.jpg
  • Private security guards patrol the barracks patrol over Asylum seekers inside Napier Barracks on the 5th of February 2021, Folkestone Kent. Over 400 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19. 3 people living inside the barracks have attempted suicide in 2021 already.
    UK-Home-Office-Napier-Barracks-9453.jpg
  • Private security guards patrol the barracks patrol over Asylum seekers inside Napier Barracks on the 5th of February 2021, Folkestone Kent. Over 400 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19. 3 people living inside the barracks have attempted suicide in 2021 already.
    UK-Home-Office-Napier-Barracks-9482.jpg
  • The burnt out accommodation block that was set on fire on the 29th of January 2021 inside Napier Barracks on the 5th of February 2021, Folkestone Kent. A fire broke out after a disturbance as over 400 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19. 3 people living inside the barracks have attempted suicide in 2021 already.
    UK-Home-Office-Napier-Barracks-9430.jpg
  • The police have been forcing anyone who leaves back inside Napier Barracks due to COVID-19 restrictions, sometimes even carrying them back through the gates.Over 400 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19. 3 people living inside the barracks have attempted suicide in 2021 already.
    UK-Home-Office-Napier-Barracks-4498.jpg
  • The burnt out accommodation block that was set on fire on the 29th of January 2021 inside Napier Barracks on the 5th of February 2021, Folkestone Kent. A fire broke out after a disturbance as over 400 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19. 3 people living inside the barracks have attempted suicide in 2021 already.
    UK-Home-Office-Napier-Barracks-4484.jpg
  • Snow falling at Napier Barracks, on the 7th of February 2021, Folkestone, United Kingdom. Men are locked up in accommodation inside Napier Barracks due to COVID-19 restrictions, Over 100 asylum seekers are being kept at Napier Barracks in unsuitable, cold accommodation, they are experiencing mental health issues as well as being vulnerable to health conditions including COVID-19. 3 people living inside the barracks have attempted suicide in 2021 already.
    UK-Home-Office-Napier-Barracks-4508.jpg
  • A detail of the bomb-aimer's window in the nose of a Victor bomber from the nuclear Cold War V-bomber era. The Handley Page Victor was a British jet-powered strategic bomber, developed and produced by the Handley Page Aircraft Company and served during the Cold War. It was the third and final of the V-bombers operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF)
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  • Visitors ponder the installation of artist Fiona Banner's fighter jet art work 'Harrier and Jaguar' which is exhibited in the north Duveens gallery at Tate Britain, London. This Sepecat Jaguar aircraft was once in service with the Royal Air Force (RAF). It's serial number was XZ118 and its first  was in 1976 and its last in 2006. Its insertion into the gallery was by dismantling the fuselage and re-assembling in situ. Its nose points a few inches from the ground and we see it's now empty cockpit. Banner's art is concerned with flying machines of war that flow low over her as a child in Wales. They may be machines of war but also have the personalities of hanging or submissive birds or beasts, nudes or totems, provoking the idea of body and machine in intimate confrontation. The show runs 28 June 2010 – 3 January 2011.
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  • Visitors ponder the installation of artist Fiona Banner's fighter jet art work 'Harrier and Jaguar' which is exhibited in the south Duveens gallery at Tate Britain, London. This Sea Harrier aircraft was once in service with the Royal Air Force (RAF). It's serial number was ZE695 and the first flight was in 1988, crashing after its pilot ejected in 2000. Its insertion into the gallery was by dismantling the fuselage and re-assembling in situ. Its nose points a few inches from the ground and we see it's now empty cockpit. Banner's art is concerned with flying machines of war that flow low over her as a child in Wales. They may be machines of war but also have the personalities of hanging or submissive birds or beasts, nudes or totems, provoking the idea of body and machine in intimate confrontation. The show runs 28 June 2010 – 3 January 2011.
    tate_harrier08-29-06-2010_1.jpg
  • Visitors ponder the installation of artist Fiona Banner's fighter jet art work 'Harrier and Jaguar' which is exhibited in the south Duveens gallery at Tate Britain, London. This Sea Harrier aircraft was once in service with the Royal Air Force (RAF). It's serial number was ZE695 and the first flight was in 1988, crashing after its pilot ejected in 2000. Its insertion into the gallery was by dismantling the fuselage and re-assembling in situ. Its nose points a few inches from the ground and we see it's now empty cockpit. Banner's art is concerned with flying machines of war that flow low over her as a child in Wales. They may be machines of war but also have the personalities of hanging or submissive birds or beasts, nudes or totems, provoking the idea of body and machine in intimate confrontation. The show runs 28 June 2010 – 3 January 2011.
    tate_harrier05-29-06-2010_1.jpg
  • Visitors ponder the installation of artist Fiona Banner's fighter jet art work 'Harrier and Jaguar' which is exhibited in the south Duveens gallery at Tate Britain, London. This Sea Harrier aircraft was once in service with the Royal Air Force (RAF). It's serial number was ZE695 and the first flight was in 1988, crashing after its pilot ejected in 2000. Its insertion into the gallery was by dismantling the fuselage and re-assembling in situ. Its nose points a few inches from the ground and we see it's now empty cockpit. Banner's art is concerned with flying machines of war that flow low over her as a child in Wales. They may be machines of war but also have the personalities of hanging or submissive birds or beasts, nudes or totems, provoking the idea of body and machine in intimate confrontation. The show runs 28 June 2010 – 3 January 2011.
    tate_harrier02-29-06-2010_1.jpg
  • Visitors ponder the installation of artist Fiona Banner's fighter jet art work 'Harrier and Jaguar' which is exhibited in the south Duveens gallery at Tate Britain, London. This Sea Harrier aircraft was once in service with the Royal Air Force (RAF). It's serial number was ZE695 and the first flight was in 1988, crashing after its pilot ejected in 2000. Its insertion into the gallery was by dismantling the fuselage and re-assembling in situ. Its nose points a few inches from the ground and we see it's now empty cockpit. Banner's art is concerned with flying machines of war that flow low over her as a child in Wales. They may be machines of war but also have the personalities of hanging or submissive birds or beasts, nudes or totems, provoking the idea of body and machine in intimate confrontation. The show runs 28 June 2010 – 3 January 2011.
    tate_harrier01-29-06-2010_1.jpg
  • An instructor with the Royal Gurkha Rifles points a recruit towards an objective while on tactical training manoeuvres on heathland above Farnborough, on 5th August 1996, in Farnborough, England. Nepali-born boys belong to an elite Regiment of the British army. Every year 60,000 boys attend recruiting sessions in villages and towns in the Himalayan Kingdom but only 150 are selected each year to serve on active duty across the world. They fly to the UK for basic soldier training where they learn the skills required for infantry, transport, communications or clerical duties. Their reputation as a fierce but intensely loyal fighting force and many Victoria Crosses were won for bravery during World War 2. Here they are seen cradling modern SA-80 rifles while dressed in camouflaged helmets with oak leaves.
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  • An entire rank of Grenadier Guardsmen musicians are playing clarinets as part of the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations, one event in a series to mark her 50th year on the throne. The soldiers have formed a marching band guard that is making its way along the Mall, that broad avenue from Buckingham Palace. Focus is on one guardsman whose bearskin is slightly higher than his of his comrades. Their music sheets are pinned on specially adapted stands on the ends on their instruments making the job of marching in absolutely straight, regimented lines the more easier. The Grenadier Guards (GREN GDS) is the most senior regiment of the Guards Division of the British Army, and, as such, is the most senior regiment of infantry. The Grenadier Guards celebrated its 350th anniversary in 2006.
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  • A Royal Air Force winchman stands in a half-open door of a Westland Sea King helicopter as it takes-off after a medical mission to deliver a patient to Kings College Hospital in Camberwell. As locals look on at the aircraft as it lifts off from Ruskin Park, Lambeth in south London, the yellow RAF search and rescue aircraft (SAR) leaves to return to base. Both RAF, Royal Navy and London air ambulances regularly use this public space for emergency transporting of casualties to the NHS Trust A&E department.
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  • British schoolchildren on a daytrip to the capital enjoy a chance encounter with guardsmen at Horseguards on London's Whitehall. Gathering around the two troops, they talk to the caucasian man rather than the smaller man of afro-caribbean descent, both wearing the scarlet uniform tunics of the British Household Cavalry. This regiment is classed as a corps in its own right, and consists of two regiments: Life Guards (British Army) and the Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons). They are the senior regular regiments in the British Army, with traditions dating from 1660.
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  • With a grimace on her pained face, a female Officer Cadet at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst splashes through a water obstacle during  an endurance race. Recruits are running a 5 mile steeplechase around the Academy grounds to assess individual stamina and accumulate team points. Sandhurst is an institution which has bred staff officers since 1800. Today it trains future officers for the demands of leadership and military understanding of military understanding. Students are tested for their command instincts, intellect, strength of character and physical endurance often under great psychological pressure - the demands asked of them in modern warfare. Failure in this test might not necessarily mean dismissal though perseverance or refusal to give up won't harm their prospects.
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  • With homes beneath, a Royal Air Force Puma troop-carrying helicopter takes-off again after a brief landing in Ruskin Park in the south London borough of Lambeth. It is believed that the RAF use various public spaces as part of emergency landing/evacuation location familiarisation in readiness of a future national emergency.  The Puma (registration XW216 from 230 Squadron, RAF Benson) is used as battlefield helicopters within the Joint Helicopter Command and provide tactical troop and load movement by day or by night.
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  • An Royal Air Force Puma helicopter takes off after only a few moments on the ground in Ruskin Park, a public space in the south London borough of lambeth. The RAF often land their helicopters here as part of air crew training and familiarisation - rumoured to be part of emergency evacuation/extraction landing locations around the capital. Otherwise, the Puma is used in the battlefield within the Joint Helicopter Command and provide tactical troop and load movement by day or by night.
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  • With homes beneath, a Royal Air Force Puma troop-carrying helicopter lands in Ruskin Park in the south London borough of Lambeth. It is believed that the RAF use various public spaces as part of emergency landing/evacuation location familiarisation in readiness of a future national emergency. The Puma (registration XW216 from 230 Squadron, RAF Benson) is used as battlefield helicopters within the Joint Helicopter Command and provide tactical troop and load movement by day or by night.
    ruskin_puma01-04-12-2015_1.jpg
  • An officer of the Royal Navy looks proudly out to sea while standing at the bow of the frigate HMS Monmouth F235, on 23rd August 2001, near Portsmouth, England.
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  • Formally-dressed gentlemen donate coins to soldiers from the Coldstream Guards (from nearby Windsor barracks and deploying to Afghanistan later this year) <br />
during the annual Royal Ascot horseracing festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
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