From Tailhooker to Mudmover Dick Lord

From Tailhooker to Mudmover   

Author: Dick Lord    

Publisher: Corporal Publications  

Edition: First 2003   

ISBN: 0-620-30762-5

Language: English  

Condition: Good. Clean copy with tight binding and no markings. 

Binding: Softcover 

Pages: 348. Text with images 

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From Tailhooker to Mudmover   An aviation career in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm, United States Navy and the South African Air Force 

Brigadier-General Dick Lord joined the Royal Navy as an air cadet in 1958, where he qualified as a fighter pilot. Flying Sea Venoms and Sea Vixens, he served on board the aircraft carriers Centaur, Victorious, Hermes and Ark Royal on cruises around the world. In the mid 60s, he was selected for a two-year exchange tour with the US Navy, flying A4 Skyhawks and F4 Phantoms out of San Diego, California. He completed tours of air warfare instruction, flying Hunters out of the naval air stations at Lossiemouth, Scotland and Brawdy, Wales. He returned to South Africa in early 70s and joined the South African Air Force (SAAF), flying Impalas, Sabres and Mirage IIIs. During the Border War, he commanded 1 Squadron, flying Mirage F1AZs into Angola, followed by running air force operations out of Oshikati, Windhoek and SAAF Headquarters in Pretoria. A highlight of his career was organizing the successful fly-past of 76 aircraft for Nelson Mandelas inauguration as President of South Africa in 1994.

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