Our new book An Officer and Her Gentleman is out today! ✈️📚 So excited to share this one with you especially because I’ve written it with my husband Craig. It’s a story of courage, failure, resilience and flying! Link in comments. If you read it, we’d love to hear your thoughts. #BookLaunch #NewBook #Aviation #Avgeeks

Being a cadet can change your life 🇬🇧 From confidence and leadership to friendships and new challenges, cadets help young people thrive. That’s why we’re launching the UK’s first-ever National Cadets Week in October 2026. #NCW2026 Find out more: ow.ly/o8B450Z2OF4

Craig Hickson shares a memorable story of when he and his Royal Navy Sea King crew saved a young boy after a 40ft fall. 📺 youtu.be/ENnTUyV-nxc?si=U3Yb…

Join us this June for a fundraising dinner supporting veterans & their families across Scotland. The Balmoral Hotel | 4-course dinner, raffle & auction | Keynote from former RAF pilot @MandyHickson Tickets from £150. Contact: DDoran-Timson@poppyscotland.org.uk

Fabulous new book from @JohnNicholRAF #Blitz. Can’t wait to start reading it…when I’m not being annoyed by my husband! 😂

Thank you for the brilliant evening at @museum74813 last night, seeing @MandyHickson and her husband Craig talking about some of the stories from their book. Of course I couldn't go without Geoffrey2, so I got pics of him with both of them as part of @Giraffesontour too 🦒💜😀

Really looking forward to this tomorrow, especially having just finished their book! 🫡😀

Gorgeous walk with this beautiful lady! 🥰 @chinnychick

@MandyHickson currently listening to An Officer Not a Gentleman in the car! Brilliant so far! Be interesting to hear your views and differences compared to Mike Sutton in his Jag / Typhoon. My daughter loves typhoons (she’s 5) trying to convince her she can do it

Well...now that i've finished my Lego F1, time to get stuck into a book for a while... I enjoyed the first one from @MandyHickson and i'm sure this follow-up book with Craig will be another good read 📚🙂

7 years ago today! The final Fin Flight… What a fly past! #TornadoGR4 @JohnNicholRAF @chinnychick @scottiebateman @stuartroxy @gregbagwell

Sad news is emerging of the loss of a US Air Force KC-135 tanker aircraft in Iraq. Aircraft like these rarely make headlines when everything goes right. Yet they are among the most essential machines in modern military aviation. Tankers extend the reach of every other aircraft in the sky, fighters, surveillance aircraft, transports, quietly enabling operations hundreds or thousands of miles from home. They do their work in the background, often at night, in demanding environments, and under constant pressure to deliver fuel precisely where and when it is needed. But aviation, especially in operational theatres, carries risk. Been there, done that. Even when a mission is routine, even when the aircraft is not engaged directly in combat, the margins can be thin. Weather, fatigue, complex airspace, mechanical failure, all the same hazards that civil aviation manages every day are present, often amplified by circumstances. Moments like this are a reminder that war is never a safe profession, even away from the immediate violence of conflict. The risks of accidents, the quiet, unforgiving side of aviation, are always there. For those of us who fly, these stories land heavily. Behind every aircraft tail number are crews, families, colleagues and friends whose lives are bound to that crew, those machines, and the mission they serve. Whatever the final details of this tragedy may be, tonight the thoughts of the aviation community must be with those who may have been lost, and with the families, crews and units now carrying that burden. Blue skies and tailwinds to those who didn’t make it home. #IranWar‌

I'm watching "One of RAF's first female combat fighter pilots on highs and lows of her career" itv.com/watch/news/one-of-ra… via @ITVX

Did I have a go????? How much G do you reckon this pulls?

Who do we know who’s in sponsorship activation and would like to help Veterans Can... out? We’ve got some big things bubbling!

Nice mix so far this month @LNER @DameAllans @Leighton @MandyHickson @RickParfittJnr

Happy Pancake Day! How do you have yours???

Oh god!!! Why do I do it?!!!🥂🍻🍺🍾vs 🤮vs 🚲🚲🚲??? Or 🍳🥓

A very interesting author on Meet the Indie Author page today, especially with my husband being ex-RAF... With two books to devour and a lot of stories to tell, meet @MandyHickson cjhall.co.uk/author-profiles…

This is wrong. The RAF has never stopped recruiting white men. But they did illegally accelerate 161 individuals (who were either female or from an ethnic minority backgrounds) onto initial training ahead of other candidates. raf.mod.uk/documents/pdf/…. The next Reform defection?