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All the most interesting aviation-related moments of the Olympic Games opening ceremony

July 28, 2012 David Cenciotti

In order of appearance. The Red Arrows fly over the Olympic Stadium The world’s most famous-spy James Bond personally escorts The Queen Elizabeth II to the games on an AgustaWestland AW139 helicopter. The unusual duo […]

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James Bond daredevil chopper leap, helicopter's eight billion confetti air drop: some of the Olympic opener highlights

July 27, 2012 David Cenciotti

Although the presence of the Red Arrows at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games has already been made public, the London 2012 Olympic Games show promises some rather funny helicopter action. Details leaked so […]

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Olympics air security gets its first test as Typhoon is scrambled from RAF Northolt, in noth-west London

July 25, 2012 Richard Clements

At around 12.20pm local time on Wednesday Jul. 25 the RAF Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) Typhoons based at RAF Northolt (London) for Olympic Games security got their first scramble. Using radio callsign 6NK31, the first […]

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Banksy latest Olympic themed mural depicts an athlete throwing an air-to-air missile as opposed to a javelin

July 24, 2012 David Cenciotti

Among the two Olympic Games themed stencils that the famous street artist Banksy has painted on walls in unknown locations, there is also a javelin thrower armed with an air-to-air missile. Similar to an AIM-9(N) […]

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Near miss as Britain's biggest warship squeezes through Thames Barrier to attend the Olympic Guard exercise

May 7, 2012 David Cenciotti

Along with the Typhoon on QRA (Quick Reaction Alert) at RAF Northolt, west London, the Olympic Guard exercise, whose goal is to test the security plan aimed to prevent a 9/11 type of attack during […]

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