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I i ' t; i . i t-- ' ' t , - ; ; : : i - , t i ■ ;Test pilot Peter Wilson is the envy of fightcrpilotsworldtvide when he climbs into thostate-of-th e-art F-35 jet


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through its paces Peter Wilson (47) is one of Britain's leading test pilots for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter


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A leading fighter piiot invoived inthetestingof Britain's


■. brand new F-35 fighter jet, the . replacementforthejconic i ;


Harrierjumpjet,isfrom Whalley. '


'5 Peter Wilson (47), a veteran : cHarrier pilot and one’ of Brit- : ain’s leading test pilots, has i low n combat


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: missions in Iraq, i'BosniaandSierra = Leone through-' out the course of his career.


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craft carriers equipped with the state-of-the-art fighters; the role of the F-35 is crucial to the programme’s success. Like the Harrier before it, the


F-35 has the ability to conduct vertical landings, courtesy of


its Rolls-Royce vertical land- ■ ing system which will enable


theaircraft to land on the deck of the new Queen Elizabeth-, class aircraft carriers which^


arecurrently underconstruc­ tion in Scotland.


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- bility means it can penetrate deep into :: enemy te ir ito ry ';.


‘ "After the bit-, ter controversy surrounding .the government’s decision to


;,'scrap the Harrier as part of ,. 2010 defence cuts, Peter is-


part of the team ofBri tain’s top,


ygunfighterpilotswhoarecur.’ -irently testing its successor,'^


: .the f-35 Joint Strike Fighter.: Peter, vvho was born in'


:;WhalleyandnowlivesinLittle' .Eccleston, near Preston', with


*.his family said: “1 love the Rib- : • ble Valley and it’s always nice


.tocomebacktovisitwhenl’m notworjdng.”


c A..ynder.the Governs plans^to build two new air-


• ■ Apart from- its phenomenal: flying'capabil^


•ity, the:F-35 is; also fitted with} the latest intelli-^ gence-gathering


and state-of-the-art stealth ■


. technology. Named “Light- ’ :ning ll” in tribute to Britain’s


.pioneering supersonic jet tighter in operation in the


.earlyColdWarera, bi,


' ; - Defence Secretary f


thillip Hammond, who vis-- ited the American test site - last week, said that the Gov-" ernment remained commit-'


" ’ aintaining the £io ; Dilhon programme and that"


Britain’s participation “will, in addition, strengthen the’*


alliance between Britain and' Amenca.”


;The F-35 in vertical take-off mode ,;i-,


‘Ahamazing flying machine}^


The F-35 can fly at nearly twice.


the speed of sound and its ■ . - y stealth capability means it can j penetrate deep into enemy ter-,', rito ry without being tracked byj radar. Peterexplained: “Thestealth . ,,i factormeansyoucandetect


enemy a irc ra ft, but they can-; .• j notdetectyou.Thisissimplyan j amazing flying machine". : ; s


:The American-led F-35 venture w ill create 25,000jobs and has, .5 the potential to earn £35 billion .J in exports during the life of the programme and w ill in addition strengthenthetransatlantic ...Ji


alliance.


Artist’s passion for steam leads to a brief eneounter


: r Steam locomotives and ra i l- : ' ways will take centre stage - when Clitheroe artist George Reynolds displays his work a t : Whalley Library from Mon­ day, June 3rd. . Mr Reynolds, o f Bonny-\


grass Terrace; Woone Lane,, hasundergonetwoeyeopera-,


- tionsini5months,buthasstill managed to produce a variety of new work. ' ' He'said: “The eye opera- : tions have slowed my progress somewhat, but I’ve carried on ■ ■ regardless. Ijust love painting


.' and I can’t stop doing what I love.”


■ One of his paintings “Brief


Encounter”, a montage depict­ ing thestoiyofthei945 movie, is on show at Whalley before


movinginJulytothemuseum ' at Carnforth station, the loca-: tion for the filming.


■ “I’m really pleased about: my ‘Brief Encounter’ paint­ ing being accepted for Carn­ forth,” he said.


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■ “it’s one of the greatest ■ British films; and when you ' see how it was filmed it’s very dark and almost Gothic.' - . ■ ' “I’ve tried to sum up the at- i


: mosphere of the film and teU . the story in the painting.” • '


. Another painting, of an LMS Patriot class locomotive,: : will later go to help the Mid- lands-based.Patriot Group'. raise money towards its £1.5 million project to build an all-. new Patriot locomotive, to be called the Unknown Warrior,'


from original blueprints.' " v. The Patriot 4-6-0 express locomotives were built during thei930sandmanyweregiven a military name to honour the war dead. They were withdrawn in


1965 and; unlike some clas­ sic steam locomotive classes, none were preserved.-; : • :, ^ Mr Reynolds, who writes


rock music reviews for the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times as '“Big George’i. has


: previously donated paintings: which have raised hundredsof pounds for the Patriot Group. ' . Mostoftheotherpaintings on show at'Whalley will be on sale. For details and informa- ■ tion about commissions, call * 07824644412. ■ '


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A FORMER draughtsman and keentravellerwho haiisfrom the birthplace of the Industri­


al Revolution is Ribble Valley’s newmayor.


Coun. Richard Sherras (79), who served as chairman of.


Ribble Valley Borough Coun­ cil’s planning and develop­ ment committee for 13 years and is the authority’s former deputy leader, received th’e civic chains of office in a cer­ emony in the Ribble Valley Council Chamber. Coun. Sherras was born and brought up in Derby- - shire and is a former mem-


. her ofthe then Belper Rural - District Council, now part of Amber ValleyDistrictCouncil, which covers the area consid­ ered the birthplace of the In­ dustrial Revolution and hosts 1 the world’s first factory, Ark­ wright’s Mill at Cromford, near : Matlock. He has worked as a de­


signer and draughtsman at Rolls-Royce in Derby and run amqjorcreditcardsubsidiary and software consultancy. •


. . ‘ Post-retirement he was general manager of the debt counselling charity Consum-. er Credit Counselling Serv- ■ ice, which is now called .Step


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The new Mayor, Coun. Richard Sherras, and Mayoress Mrs Lynne Pate


Change Debt Charity. Coun. Sherras lives in Rimington and is a keen supporter of the ■ village football team, Riming-. ton FC, who recently won th e : West Riding FA Challenge Cup at Elland Road, the home of Leeds United.


' ' He also enjoys walking and ,


foreign travel, and among the many placeshehasvisi ted are


Mongolia, the Gobi Desert, the - Andes and Ethiopia. ■


Coun Sherras’s mayoress


for his year in office will be Mrs Lynne Pate and his cho­ sen charities - set to benefit from fund-raising throughout theyear- are SSAFA (Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Familes Associa­ tion) and Leukaemia and Lym- ; phoma Research.


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