Airborne Rescuers in Demand ; Whether There has Been Thick Fog, Gale Force Winds or Driving Rain - the Crews of a Flight 22 Squadron Have Remained On Continual 24- Hour Standby. The First Logged Call the Squadron has On Record Was On January 23, 1959, When Boxer Pup, Tammy, Became Stranded On a Sand Bank in Barnstaple.

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Whether there has been thick fog, gale force winds or driving rain - the crews of A flight 22 Squadron have remained on continual 24-hour standby. The first logged call the squadron has on record was on January 23, 1959, when boxer pup, Tammy, became stranded on a sand bank in Barnstaple.

On May 5, 1959, they were called to transport a young boy who was seriously ill from hospital in Plymouth, to Frenchay Hospital in Bristol. The records are sparse, but it is understood that the boy survived. Fifty years on, the crews of A Flight are still attending similar incidents across a vast section of Great Britain in the Westcountry, Wales and further into England.

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Airborne Rescuers in Demand ; Whether There has Been Thick Fog, Gale Force Winds or Driving Rain - the Crews of a Flight 22 Squadron Have Remained On Continual 24- Hour Standby. The First Logged Call the Squadron has On Record Was On January 23, 1959, When Boxer Pup, Tammy, Became Stranded On a Sand Bank in Barnstaple.

Some of the rescues are straight forward, but there are others where the crew's reliance on each other is pushed to the limit. In...

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