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Summary:DISPATCHES reveals how cutbacks in funding the Royal Air Force have lead to inadequate safety standards,an increase in plane crashes and a reducton in pilots' flying time and how they now threaten the very ability of the RAF to fufil its role in time of war. Contributors include pilots Air Vice Marshall Box Robinson,James Archer,Ed Smith and Group Captain Neil Buckland. Parents of RAF personnel killed in crashes also speak including Ann and Terry Burgess,parents of Simon Burgess and RAF instructor and Linda Bailey,mother of an RAF trainee killed in a helicopter crash.
Description:Dispatches investigates the Royal Air Force.