95-year-old RAF veteran to receive special salute at Sidmouth Air Display

By The Editor

22nd Aug 2019 | Local News

The RAF Falcons Display Team. Picture courtesy of the RAF.
The RAF Falcons Display Team. Picture courtesy of the RAF.

95-year-old Royal Air Force veteran and Sidmouth Resident, Alexander Fraser, will receive a special salute at tomorrow's Sidmouth Air Display.

With Sidmouth's Air display fast approaching it's time to focus on another of the teams, the RAF Falcons.

The ten man team will drop and perform a variety of manoeuvres as they descend from a Dornier aircraft at anything up to 12,000 feet.

Once displayed and landed the team will salute the crowd and in particular, 95-year-old Sidmouth resident and Royal Air Force Veteran Warrant Officer Alexander Fraser who will be sat just in front of their drop zone.

Alexander served for 42 years in the RAF and started out flying Halifax and then Lancaster bombers during the second world war.

He carried out 36 ops over Germany and the average for bomber crews was 5 so he thinks he did 'pretty well'.

After the war Alexander continued in the RAF flying many different types of aircraft.

One of the highlights of his career was flying the Royal Family on overseas visits in the Royal Flight De Havilland Comet.

His favourite aircraft of his career was the wartime Lancaster Bomber with its four Merlin engines.

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