TY - BOOK AU - Hamilton,David TI - TIME FLIES: REFLECTIONS OF A FIGHTER PILOT SN - 9781781555842 U1 - 940.44941092 23 PY - 2017/// CY - United Kingdom : PB - Fonthill Media Limited, KW - Hamilton, David (David R.). KW - Hamilton, David (David R.) KW - Royal Air Force KW - Biography KW - Great Britain KW - Fighter pilots N2 - Time Flies: Reflections of a Fighter Pilot' retells the exploits of David Hamilton's thirty years of service in the Royal Air Force. He had a wide and varied career; flying Lightnings to defend UK airspace, operating from HMS Ark Royal in F-4 Phantoms, and defending the Inner German Border from RAF Wildenwrath. In the UK MoD he was a staff officer responsible for the Eurofighter project. He served in the First Gulf War, as the commander of a Tornado F3 Squadron deployed in Saudi Arabia, and worked as General Sir Peter de la Billiere's air advisor afterwards. He flew with and was supervisor of the Red Arrows. In NATO's Brussels Headquarters, he served as a Group Captain, formulating the Rules of Engagement for the Bosnian air campaign, and then became the deputy station commander at RAF Leuchars. Hamilton also led the Tornado F3 four-ship flypast over Edinburgh Castle as the Stone of Destiny returned to Scotland on 30 November 1996, before taking early retirement from the RAF to work in the defence industry on the Eurofighter project ER -