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
MPX5154528: Prince Philip is pictured here during the recording seesion, when he took part in a BBC radio Programme called "Let's Find Out". He was questioned by four teenagers for half an hour on every possible subject. The teenagers were Susan Bucknell, 19, a student reading geography at St. Hugh's College, Oxford. Vivienne Barton, 18, a junior reporter on a Brighton newspaper, Christopher Hall, 16. a Welwyn Garden City Grammar School Boy, and David Buckness, 18, a pupil of the Haberdasher Aske School in Hertfodshire. The compere for the programme was Peter Haig. The Bucknell's are the son and daughter of "do it yourself" Bucknell. THe programme will be transmitted on the 4th April, 3pm on the Light. It is produced by David Carter. 31st March 1965 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images