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MPX5155932: The RAF's new pilot training scheme known as the Provost - Vampire Sequence, under which pilots qualify for their wings on jet aircraft, is now in operation and the first course of pilots has just been passed out at No. 5 Flying Training School at Oakington, Cambridgeshire. Pictured is Flying Officer W S Burrows, an instructor at the Vampire Traing School, putting Auxiliary Pilot Officer W F Gough of Cranbrook, Kent, through his blindfold training. This training is to accustom pilots to finding their instruments quickly in the dark as they might have to in the event of a fire which filled the cockpit with smoke. 24/08/1954 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5157065: Personnel officer David Threlfall enjoying the good life in the Bahamas thanks to the Apollo Moon men. David 26 is pictured on holiday in the playground Caribbean Isles paid for by the 10,000 won from bookmaker William Hill when Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the Moon. In 1964 David of Broad-gate, Preston, Lancashire, laid his £10 bet at a thousand to one against a man woman or child from any nation on Earth landing on the moon or any other planet, star of heavenly body of comparable distance from Earth before January 1971. David is holidaying at the Emerald Beach Hotel Nassau. 26th August 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images