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Eject! Eject!:
When Jo Lancaster, the first British pilot to eject in an emergency, triggered his ejection seat in 1949, it took thirty seconds before he was safely away from the aircraft and under his parachute. Since those first post-Second World War ejections, many tens of thousands of lives have been saved by increasingly sophisticated escape systems. When John Nichols Tornado was blasted out of the sky during the 1991 Gulf War, a mere 2.5 seconds elapsed between pulling the ejection handle and his parachute opening.

Tornado:
In 1990, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion and occupation of neighbouring Kuwait, setting in motion a chain of events that had unimaginable political, military and personal repercussions, which still reverberate around the globe today.

Lancaster:
Sir Arthur Harris, the controversial chief of Royal Air Force Bomber Command, described the Lancaster as his ‘shining sword’ and the ‘greatest single factor in winning the war’. RAF bomber squadrons carried out offensive operations from the first day of the Second World War until the very last, more than five and a half years later.

Spitfire:
In late spring 1940, Nazi Germanys domination of Europe had looked unstoppable. With the British Isles in easy reach since the fall of France, Adolf Hitler was convinced that Great Britain would be defeated in the skies over her southern coast, confident his Messerschmitts and Heinkels would outclass anything the Royal Air Force threw at them.

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John Nichol Collection 4 Books Set (Eject! Eject!, Tornado, Lancaster, Spitfire)

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