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Front cover: An RAF Typhoon appears like a shark from the depths. This photograph was taken from the back of a transport aircraft over a lake in the Baltic region where the Typhoons were deployed in the NATO Baltic Air Policing Role. (MoD/Crown Copyright 2014)
Title page: A Victor K2 from 55 Squadron RAF Marham on one of its last flights before the end of the aircraft type’s operational era. (Crown Copyright 2006)
Contents page: Two Harrier GR7s in formation. (Crown Copyright 2002)
Foreword: Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach (Crown Copyright)
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