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...acquisition said outsourcing could reduce costs substantially. For example, it pointed to work by the National Audit Office suggesting a Tornado support contract run by BAE had delivered savings of GBP1.3bn. The MoD spent about GBP10.1bn...

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...the age of 32, Flight Lieutenant Kirsty Moore is the first woman to break 45 years of male monopoly and join the Red Arrows. She has flown Tornados on combat missions in Iraq and has been an inspiring trainer at RAF Valley in Wales. Soon she...

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The fast jet pilot also revealed how she was inspired to join the RAF by her father, Squadron Leader Robbie Stewart, who served as a Tornado navigator. Earlier this year, Flight Lieutenant Moore beat more than 30 male applicants to...

In this article: Royal Air Force, Lincolnshire, RAF Scampton, London Olympics, and Tornado

...wings three years later and went on to instruct on the Hawk, the same agile jet the Arrows use in their displays. Moving on to fly the Tornado GR4, she completed two Iraq tours. "We had long flying hours but we were there for the guys on the...

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Up to 50 aircraft will fly out of kinloss base for 12-day exercise HIGH-FLYING: Tornado jets will take part in the 12-day Tactical Leadership Training Course ABOUT 500 RAF personnel and up to 50 aircraft will take part in a low-flying...

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...fast-jet pilots apply to the Red Arrows every year but only the very best are successful. Flight Lieutenant Moore was based with a Tornado squadron at RAF Marham in Norfolk before she made her successful application. She has done two...

In this article: Tornado, RAF, RAF Marham, Lincolnshire, RAF Scampton, and Iraq

...in her RAF career, the 31-year-old served as a Qualified Flying Instructor, teaching students to fly the advanced fast jet trainer at RAF Valley, before flying the Tornado GR4 on operations in Iraq. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

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...mostly women, doing a job which required special nerve and skill." Like Moore, whose new role (after combat missions in heavyweight Tornados) requires a super-calm head at 400mph, six feet from a colleague's wingtip, Johnson & Co had to...

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...being selected for the prestigious aerobatics display team, Flight Lieutenant Kirsty Moore, 32, said her father Robbie Stewart was a retired Tornado navigator. Earlier this year she saw off competition from up to 40 other pilots keen to join...

In this article: RAF, Tornado, RAF Valley, Stamford High School, RAF Scampton, and Imperial College, London

...a press conference today at the Red Arrows' base at RAF Scampton, near Lincoln. Flt Lt Moore whose father Robbie Stewart was a retired Tornado navigator joined the RAF in 1998 after studying aeronautical engineering at Imperial College,...

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