No. 43 Squadron RAF
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Number 43 Squadron, nicknamed the Fighting Cocks, was a Royal Air Force aircraft squadron originally formed in April 1916 as part of the Royal Flying Corps. It saw distinguished service during two world wars, producing numerous "aces". The squadron last operated the Panavia Tornado F3 from RAF Leuchars, Scotland, in the air defence role, until it was disbanded in July 2009.
Sopwith Snipe E8015 of No. 43 Squadron, late 1918.
Gloster Meteor F.4, similar to what No. 43 (F) Squadron operated between 1949 and 1950.
Hawker Hunter FGA.9 XG154 in the colours of the joint No. 8 and 43 Squadron at the Royal Air Force Museum London.
Harold Harington Balfour, 1st Baron Balfour of Inchrye,, was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, and a flying ace of the First World War. As Under-Secretary of State for Air in 1944 he was instrumental in the establishment of London Heathrow Airport.
During the Second World War, the Under-Secretary of State for Air, H. H. Balfour, questions an Air Commodore about 250-lb GP bombs, which are about to be loaded into a Bristol Blenheim Mark IV of the Advanced Air Striking Force on a snow-covered airfield in France.