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By the age of just 22 Spindler had flown 50 perilous operations and won two DFCs
Air Commodore Tom Bennett, pilot who gathered air samples following Pacific nuclear tests – obituary After his Pacific duties he flew helicopters in Malaya, evacuating casualties, and Ulster, where he supported the security services Tom Bennett with Prince Charles Air Commodore Tom Bennett, who has died aged 91, flew in support of an RAF detachment gathering air samples over the Pacific. He later served in helicopters during the Malayan Emergency, in Northern Ireland and in Hong Kong. In the early 1950s, the UK joined the US in a secret intelligence programme to collect samples from the atm...