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RAF firefighters demonstrate their skills FORMER Northern Echo employee Tony Marshall sent us some amazing pictures he took during a visit to the RAF Fire Fighting Service School training centre in Catterick in the mid to late 1980’s, before it moved in 1989 to RAF Manston.
The Handley Page Victor, a British jet-powered strategic bomber which was developed and produced by Handley Page, and which served during the Cold War. It was the third and final V bomber to be operated by the Royal Air Force As a fire school, it had a mock-up of a house to simulate search and rescue scenarios. It also had a burning area where ex-service aircraft were covered in fuel and set alight, including two Avro Vulcan Bomber’s.