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The winners of the annual RAF Photographer of the Year competition have been announced. There were more than 800 entries submitted by RAF personnel, including both professional RAF photographers and amateurs. Image copyrightSenior Aircraftman Nicholas EganImage caption Two RAF Chinooks head out over North Sea wind farms during a low level flight to retrieve a downed pilot during a rotary training exercise. Senior Aircraftman Nicholas Egan was on hand to record the moment. The picture is one of those that earned him the award of RAF Photographer of the Year. Image copyrightSAC Nicholas Egan RAFImage caption SAC Egan also captured the moment a Chinook helicopter from RAF Odiham landed troops from 40 Commando Royal Marines on a mountain peak in the Mojave desert during Exercise Black Alligator. Image copyrightSenior Aircraftman Nicholas EganImage caption Another picture from SAC Egan shows Chinooks on the flight line at Twenty Nine Palms US Marine Corps base in California, US, beneath the Milky Way display. Image copyrightSAC Matt AherneImage caption The RAF Falcons display team were practicing at the Lake Elsinore sky diving centre, California, and Senior Aircraftman Matt Aherne was on hand to record the moment. Image copyrightCorporal Steve BuckleyImage caption Flying Hawk T1 jets, the Red Arrows is based at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire and Cpl Steve Buckley photographed them as they flew over Kuala Lumpur city centre around the Petronas towers. The Red Arrows team consists of nine display pilots and more than 100 support personnel and technicians. Image copyrightSenior Aircraftman Matty SmithImage caption The Grob 115E is known in the RAF as the Tutor and here Senior Aircraftman Matty Smith photographed four of them in formation over rural Cambridgeshire. Image copyrightSgt Peter George Image caption While flying over West Falkland Islands Sgt Peter George shot this photograph from inside a Chinook helicopter. This picture was highly commended by the judges in the RAF Operations and Exercise category.
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Image copyright Senior Aircraftman Nicholas Egan 
Image copyright SAC Nicholas Egan RAF 
Image copyright Senior Aircraftman Nicholas Egan 
Image copyright SAC Matt Aherne 
Image copyright Corporal Steve Buckley 
Image copyright Senior Aircraftman Matty Smith 
Image copyright Sgt Peter George 
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