Air to air training shots filmed from the pilot's perspective at RAF Hornchurch in 1943. Pilot is C.J.S. Howard of 559 Squadron.

Notes

Summary: C.J.S. Howard joined the Royal Air Force in 1941. Brief details of his military service as follows:

May 1953 to August 1959 - RAF Benson, Oxfordshire. Ferry pilot with 147 Squadron. Ferried some 300 F-86 Sabre jets from Canadair in Montreal to India, Iraq, Malaya and Kenya via RAF Benson. During this period, Howard also ferried Hunters, Venoms, Vampires and Meteors.

August 1959 to September 1961 - RAF Sylt, Germany.Target towing duties.

September 1961 - RAF Little Rissington, Gloucestershire. Link trainer course.

October 1961 to June 1964 - RAF Wyton, Cambridgeshire. Link trainer instructor.

June 1964 to May 1965 - RAF Eastleigh, Kenya. Flew Twin Pioneer aircraft with 21 Squadron to Somalia moving troops and equipment, and returning Kenyan dead to Nairobi.

August 1965 to March 1968 - RAF Seletar, Singapoore. Flew Twin Pioneer aircraft with 209 Squadron, ferrying Gurkas and their wives plus equipment to Malaysia and Borneo.

May 1968 to May 1969 - RAF Bawdsey, Suffolk. Fighter controller

May 1969 to June 1971 - RAF Medmenham, Buckinghamshire.

June 1974 to May 1975 - RAF Tern Hill, Shropshire.

May 1975 to November 1975 - RAF Episcopi, Cyprus.

December 1975 to September 1978 - RAF Marham. Simulator instructor.