Life as one of UK's first female fighter jet pilots

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Mandy Hickson was only the second woman to fly a Tornado GR4 operationally. Mandy Hickson: "GR4 stands for ground attack. Primarily our task involved taking photos, initially on wet film and then later on digitally. I did three tours of Iraq." "We were shot at...on a weekly basis. On one occasion we were targeted by a surface to air missile." "I was leading one of my first combat missions, and we had finished the flight." "My navigator shouted 'break right' and as I carried out the maneuvers he put out the flares."