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Hawker Hunter Tower Bridge Incident. Follow That! by Squadron Leader Paul Wharmby 2005, Limited Edition colour print numbered 36/50, showing Flight Lieutenant Alan Pollock RAF celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force on the 5th (the original printed date of the 1st omitted and inscribed by Pollock 5th in black ink) of April 1968 in his own style, signed in pencil by the pilot and the artist, image size 25 x 30cm, framed and glazed, frame size 42 x 45cm, together with three first day covers all signed by Flt. Lt. Alan Pollock, including Tangmere Military Aviation Museum (Co-Founded by Pollock), 30th Anniversary if the First Flight of the Prototype Hawker Hunter, postmark dated 20 July 1981, signed by Harold Bird-Wilson, Neville Duke and Rodney Dean and one other distinguished pilot, the opposite side signed by Alan Pollock, a Coalport collectors plate 'Victory Flypast' signed by Alan Pollock plus Low Level Jet Fighter Training chart of northern England and Scotland signed by Alan Pollock No 1 (F) Squadron The Hawker Hunter Tower Bridge incident occurred on 5 April 1968 when an unauthorised low-level incident was performed by Royal Air Force pilot Flt. Lt. Alan Pollock in his Hawker Hunter. After tippings his wings to the War memorial, Pollock 'buzzed' the House of Commons "to remind them we had an Air Force", and then 'shot' Tower Bridge. His actions were to mark the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the Royal Air Force and also as a demonstration against the minimal official recognition for his historic landmark. Pollock was arrested and invalided out of the RAF on medical grounds (which avoided a court martial). A fuller account is at www.theywerethere.co.uk/the-project/alan-pollock. Part of the They Were There project, all proceeds from this lot will benefit www.thechildrensairambulance.org.uk .