From Spitfire to Typhoon
From Spitfire to Typhoon
It’s 70 years since the Battle of Britain, but for one Royal Air Force pilot flying through history is all in a day’s work. Flight Lieutenant Antony “Parky” Parkinson, from Hastings, is an instructor on the 21st Century Typhoon, based at RAF Coningsby. But then he also gets to take to the same Lincolnshire skies in the iconic Spitfire, as a member of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF).
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