RAF Brize Norton: Gateway to the World - Hardcover

RAF Brize Norton, famous as the VIP's terminal, is also the "gateway" for Service personnel and their families handling 180,000 passengers a year. It is in the vanguard of developments in their air power, has played a prominent role in war and peace over the past 50 years - and is home to the RAF Falcons free-fall parachute display team. This book looks at Brize Norton as a functional station as well as including details of state-of-the-art air-to-air refuelling and parachute training methods and a look inside the base hangar, where VC10s and TriStars are serviced round the clock. The book also covers the station's active role in the Gulf and Falklands Wars.