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  The RAF Town Show a recruitment event for the Royal Air Force landed in Leicesters Humberstone Gate with information available to visitors regarding all sorts of facets of RAF life. With serving personnel visitors got first hand advice on perusing a career in the Royal Air Force, The showstopper of the event was a 1:1 scale facsimile of a Eurofighter Typhoon Aircraft which stood at one end of the event and gave people the chance to climb aboard and sit in a recreated cockpit, something that was very popular with visitors of all ages. The film begins at the Leicester Clock Tower and we quickly make our way to the event on Humberstone gate with the Lewis`s tower another Leicester landmark marking the start of the display area. Passing along the line of inflatable gazebos we see the various parts of the RAF represented from Transport and logistics to catering and reserves, the RAF Motorcycling team are even represented. We soon come to the Showstopper facsimile of the Typhoon Figh...

On the 30th Anniversary of Thrust 2 breaking the World Land Speed Record I visited the Coventry Transport Museum to meet driver Richard Noble and designer John Ackroyd. Thrust 2 is a British designed and built jet propelled car, which held the world land speed record from 1983 to 1997 and is currently on display at Coventry`s Transport Museum. The car (designed by John Ackroyd and driven by Richard Noble) reached a top speed of 650.88 mph (1,047.49 km/h) breaking the World Land Speed record at 633.468 mph (1,019.468 km/h) at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, USA on October 4, 1983. 2013 marks the 30th anniversary of this achievement and a special event was held at the Coventry Transport Museum (the cars current home) allowing the public a chance to get a close look at the car and meet the team behind it. The Cars successor (and current holder of the Land Speed Record) Thrust SSC is also housed at the museum and is also featured in my video.