TOWER BRIDGE INCIDENT

by Michael Rondot

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Alan Pollock... the man who flew a Hawker Hunter Jet through the middle of Tower Bridge on April 5, 1968.

His daredevil antics caused a storm of controversy at the time, but the Royal Air Force refused to court martial him, preferring instead to have a Medical Board discharge him. He was not court martialled, he claims, because his outspoken views on the fighting effectiveness of the Royal Air Force and the lack of RAF 50th anniversary flying celebrations in 1968, might provide embarassing publicity. It has also since transpired that his one-man anniversary display inadvertently co-incided with the recently exposed 'coup plot' against Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labour Government.

A graduate prizewinner from RAF Training College Cranwell, Al Pollock was a fighter leader and instructor and saw active operational service in the Middle East and served as Aide-de-Camp to a NATO Air Commander. One of the three pre-formation founders of the Red Arrows aerobatic team, he held the rare 'exceptional' RAF fast jet pilot rating.

✅ Each print in this edition has been personally signed by the artist, alongside the infamous pilot depicted:

  • Flight Lieutenant Alan Pollock

Matted size: 30 x 21 Inches

Media:
Lithograph
Size:
25.5 x 19 inches

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