RAF West Malling
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Royal Air Force West Malling or more simply RAF West Malling is a former Royal Air Force station located 1.6 miles south of West Malling, Kent and 5.2 miles west of Maidstone, Kent, England.
PORTAM CUSTODIMUS (We Guard the Gate)
A line-up of aircraft at the Great Warbirds Air Display at RAF West Malling, in August 1987.
Gibson Building: Former Officers' Mess, headquarters of Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council since 1974.
Boulton Paul Defiant
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The Boulton Paul Defiant is a British interceptor aircraft that served with the Royal Air Force during World War II. The Defiant was designed and built by Boulton Paul Aircraft as a "turret fighter" t
RAF West Malling
…with anti-aircraft and searchlight batteries for airfield defence. On 12 July, No. 141 Squadron arrived from RAF Turnhouse, Scotland, equipped with Defiant Mk.1 turret-fighters. The squadron's first engagement with the enemy occurred a week later, when 6 out of 9 Defiants were destroyed by a superior force of…
Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I
Defiants of No. 264 Squadron in 1940.
Defiant N1671 from 307 Squadron at the RAF Museum London, partially dismantled, with its tail, engine cowling and outer wing sections removed, 2016
An air-gunner of 264 Squadron wearing a 'GQ Parasuit', or "rhino suit", August 1940