Adrian "John" Nichol is a retired Royal Air Force navigator who was shot down and captured during the Gulf War. Adrian John Nichol was born in North Shields. He was the youngest of four children, and …

Jun 25, 2025 · The former Tornado pilot explained that after it was dropped it was designed to detonate a few hundred feet off the ground and create what’s known as an airburst - with the crew having …

Apr 23, 2024 · It now being the standard operating procedure, his command ejection lever had been selected to ‘both’ — so his pilot followed him out in short order. We may only imagine the front …

Former RAF pilot John Peters and his navigator John Nichol, were shot down during the Gulf War, in January 1991. John’s Tornado was hit by a surface to air missile forcing both men to eject over …

Tornado pilot Mandy Hickson found herself in a tight spot during the Iraq War. As she was being pursued by a surface-to-air missile she first tried an evasiv...

Apr 30, 2025 · Air Commodore Andrew Hine, who has died of cancer aged 58, was a Tornado pilot who over a period of 12 years was deployed to the Persian Gulf region on nine occasions to fly operations …

“I was on my first frontline tour in the Tornado with No 17 Squadron at RAF Brüggen. On this particular day I was number three in a four-ship, with our squadron commander and one of our flight …

Dec 1, 2025 · An FPV drone pilot flew a GoPro directly into a tornado to capture decidedly spellbinding footage of an atmospheric twister churning up the Oklahoma landscape.

On active duty during the first Gulf War in 1991, John's Tornado bomber was shot down during a mission over Iraq. Captured, tortured and held as a prisoner of war, John was paraded on television, …

Joanna Mary Salter MBE (born 27 August 1968, in Bournemouth) is a former Royal Air Force pilot, and was Britain's first female fast jet pilot flying the Panavia Tornado ground attack aircraft with 617 …