Royal Air Force armourers check over the sixteen 250lb bombs before they are loaded into Short Stirling bomber N6101 Somme The pilots of FR472 `GA-L'

The pilots of FR472 `GA-L' and FR440 `GA-V'

Afghanistan Trip May-June 2013

A Beaufighter being de-iced by several men standing on the wings

The ground is covered in snow and the scene is lit by a low orange sun

Force Protection Wing

Royal Air Force armourers check over the sixteen 250lb bombs before they are loaded into Short Stirling bomber N6101 Somme The pilots of FR472 `GA-L'Royal Air Force armourers check over the sixteen 250lb bombs before they are loaded into a Short Stirling bomber N6101 of No 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire. (N6101 was one of the first built by Short and Harland at Belfast).