3600 x 5112 px | 30,5 x 43,3 cm | 12 x 17 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
9 aprile 2015
Ubicazione:
RAF Cosford.
Altre informazioni:
Apprentices from across Britain are being sent to RAF Cosford to work on Jaguar fighter jets before being deployed on missions across the world. The idea is that trainees receive live training which gives them a better idea of what working on the front line would be like. Cosford is the only base in the country to offer such a hands-on experience. The apprentices, who eventually go off to work on planes all over the world, now have to first train at the Shropshire airbase to learn their skills and all the safety aspects that come with such handling such a technical and potentially dangerous piece of equipment. Airshow goers at Cosford will have seen the grass covered humps of the storage hangars on the far side of the runway. Inside these rotting concrete carcasses, Jaguars await their next use. It's dark. The floor is covered with dust and occasional small chunks of concrete that have fallen from the roof. The Jags still stand proud, with haughty noses held aloft like a posh bird at a bus station. Many of them will be released from this dusty prison, towed across the main hangars on the airfield to be made safe for instructional use, and used to train the next generation of RAF groundcrew. A better end than the scrapman's axe, though that will come for some.
