Recorded interview with Flight Lieutenant Robert Winston Osborne, 14 January 2014

Recorded interview with Robert Osborne, who served as a pilot in Hastings and Hercules aircraft during the 1960s and 1970s. His experience includes Hercules operations from Singapore with 48 Squadron.

Robert Osborne trained as a pilot in Hastings transport aircraft during the 1960s. He describes the Hastings, Hastings operations and his conversion to the Hercules. He compares the Hastings and Hercules and describes Hercules operations with 48 Squadron based at Singapore, including flights to Vietnam during the Vietnam War. He also recalls time as an instructor on the Hercules conversion unit and at the Institute of Aviation Medicine at Farnborough.