Specialist engineering equipment and operators are re-laying the runway at Culdrose in a time-critical operation…
…and in the foreground a Merlin from 824 Naval Air Squadron – the training unit for all who fly and maintain the £40m helicopter – prepares to carry out a winching drill with a stretcher (and a rather healthy casualty on the evidence of PO(Phot) Paul A’Barrow’s photograph).


