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RAF pilot diagnosed with terminal brain cancer - and his job could be to blame

The Independent 04 Apr 2025
The 53-year-old veteran was diagnosed with stage four brain cancer and initially given just months to live .
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Deputy Minister Mkhuleko Hlengwa welcomes Supreme Court of Appeal judgment on RAF application (Government of the Republic of South Africa)

Public Technologies 04 Apr 2025
Mkhuleko Hlengwa, has welcomed the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) judgment declining to hear an appeal by the Road Accident Fund (RAF) regarding the accounting standards to be used in its audit process.
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Face of RAF pilot who killed four members of family in suicidal motorway crash as ...

The Daily Mail 04 Apr 2025
This is the first picture of a depressed RAF pilot who killed four members of a family in a suicidal motorway crash ... He toured Afghanistan twice, completed three tours of Iraq - receiving a commendation for one - before leaving the RAF in 2019.
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Low-flying RAF jets stun small Scots village as aircraft soars over homes

Daily Record 03 Apr 2025
"Guessing these guys were doing a couple of flypasts at the airport this afternoon - it was heartstoppingly low at times and actually disappeared behind the houses before it came back into view." ... .
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Tunnock’s Tea Cakes pass RAF fit-to-fly test after being banned 60 years ago

AOL 03 Apr 2025
Tunnock’s Tea Cakes have been deemed fit to fly by the RAF after they were banned from flights 60 years ago ... However, they were added to the RAF’s ...
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Tunnock’s tea cakes cleared for take-off by RAF 60 years after ban

The Times/The Sunday Times 03 Apr 2025
But a longstanding myth that Tunnock’s Tea Cakes exploded at altitude led to them being banned from RAF cockpits. Now, the 60-year-old rumour has been dispelled by RAF engineers who say the Scottish ...
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Tunnock’s Tea Cakes pass RAF fit to fly test after being banned 60 years ago

The Daily Telegraph 03 Apr 2025
Tunnock’s Tea Cakes have been deemed fit to fly by the RAF after they were banned from flights 60 years ago ... However, they were added to the RAF’s no-fly list in the 1960s after some tea cakes were said to have exploded in a cockpit.
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Drunk ex-RAF pilot who killed family of four while 'deliberately' driving the wrong way down ...

The Daily Mail 03 Apr 2025
A decorated ex-RAF pilot who drove in the wrong direction on a motorway and killed a family in a head-on crash would have been charged with manslaughter had he survived, an inquest has heard ... Her son Arran Martin, right, was the only survivor ... He said.
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Home Office sells home of Red Arrows RAF Scampton on open market

BBC News 02 Apr 2025
The government says it must comply with regulations, despite a potential deal already being in place. .
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Scots RAF jets scrambled after 'aircraft failed to make contact'

Daily Record 02 Apr 2025
The jets took off from Lossiemouth after the alarm was raised by air traffic control ... .
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RAF to protect European skies on NATO’S eastern flank (MoD - UK Ministry of Defence)

Public Technologies 02 Apr 2025
RAF pilots will join up with Swedish Airforce Gripen fighter jets, as Europe steps up together to defend NATO airspace ... will be patrolling Polish airspace, having travelled from RAF Lossiemouth.
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It's the 1930s again. Let's do what we did then and let the Royal Navy own its carrier planes

The Daily Telegraph 02 Apr 2025
And, as in the 1930s, the planes which fly from the Royal Navy’s aircraft carriers belong to the RAF – with disastrous consequences for the ships’ effectiveness ... But at least some people in the RAF either don’t know this, or perhaps worse, don’t care.
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