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Mar 22, 2023 · Rod Dean. 22nd March 2023. Feature. After more than 50 years of airshow flying, this former RAF fast jet pilot and leading light of the warbird scene still loves displaying as much as ever. GERARD BOYMANS. The need for the air display scene to bring on new talent is now, thankfully, widely recognised.
Before the era of all-aspect missiles and helmet-mounted sights, jet combat was an art that needed particular skills. Pilot and author Rod Dean reflects on some incredible experiences, usually flying his favourite aircraft, the legendary Hawker Hunter.
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May 20, 2022 · Pilot and author Rod Dean reflects on some incredible experiences, usually flying his favourite aircraft, the legendary Hawker Hunter.
Tonight, we welcomed back Rod Dean for another of his excellent, well-informed and profusely illustrated talks. As you are probably aware Rod is an ex-RAF fast-jet pilot with enormous experience as a war-bird pilot, aerobatic display pilot and flying display organiser and co-ordinator.
Mar 20, 2013 · 2013-03-20 - A FORMER RAF pilot took off from a Yorkshire base for a “pleasure” flight with his pilot son – 50 years to the day since he took his first solo flight there. Rod Dean, now 68, joined the Royal Air Force in 1962 and completed his first solo flight on March 19 1963 in a Jet Provost from RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire.
Oct 26, 2021 · Rod Dean opened a sequence of displays by Cold War training aircraft with a virtuoso display in the Slingsby T-67M Firefly. His display was followed by an unlikely combination of de Havilland Canada Chipmunk T10 and Yakovlev Yak-52 which performed a series of interlaced sequences of flypasts and aerobatics.
