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Are you feeling the need - the need for speed?! Here is the first 🇬🇧⚡️takeoff in real time, as requested by so many of you. Enjoy! #WESTLANT19 #QNLZatSea #bigdecksfastjets #FlyNavy @RoyalNavy @RoyalAirForce @OC617Sqn @17SqnRAF
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History continuing to be made here on #WESTLANT19 - the first ever take off by a UK Lightning from our British carrier. @RAF_Marham even brought the weather with them! We ❤️the 🇬🇧 on the 'scoop' @RoyalNavy @RoyalAirForce @17SqnRAF #FlyNavy #bigdecksfastjets #QNLZatSea #UKF35
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It's a very special thing for Service personnel to mark the Armistice, and honour the fallen, whilst on deployment. LPhot Dan Shepherd captured today's ceremony on video, to give you the opportunity to share it with us. #WeWillRememberThem #WESTLANT19 #QNLZatSea @PoppyLegion
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We will never get bored of seeing these on our decks. Look at those skies....I hear rumbling....could even more ⚡️ be forecast for #WESTLANT19 today? 🤔@RoyalNavy @RoyalAirForce @17SqnRAF @OC617Sqn #UKF35 #QNLZatSea #bigdecksfastjets
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Two more UK Lightnings have landed onboard, as Operational Tests by @17SqnRAF and @OC617Sqn continue. The deck is getting busier and louder with six 🇬🇧⚡️ now embarked, #WESTLANT19 is just a taste of what is to come. @RoyalNavy @RoyalAirForce #bigdecksfastjets #FlyNavy #QNLZatSea
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This picture is what the crew and 11000 people across the UK have worked hard to achieve over the last 9yrs #QNLZatSea #ProudtoServe
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Here are some more of today's very welcome new additions to #WESTLANT19 ; @USMC and their #F35 Lightnings onboard - that's two VMX-1 pilots already daytime carrier qualified 👊🏼 And yes, there will soon be video! #QNLZatSea #bigdecksfastjets @RoyalNavy @RoyalAirForce
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Petty Officer Matt Hicks has found a #ukulele. Not everyone is that pleased about it... royalnavy.mod.uk/queenelizabeth #QNLZatSea
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Enjoy this fantastic shot by Leading Photographer Kyle Heller, Royal Navy #WESTLANT19 @RoyalNavy @RoyalAirForce @OC617Sqn @17SqnRAF #QNLZatSea #UKF35
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It has been an incredibly busy period for the #WESTLANT19 Carrier Strike Group, since we left the UK in August. Here is a video by Leading Photographer Dan Shepherd, summarising what we have achieved so far. Keep coming back to see what excitement is still to come! ⚡️ #QNLZatSea
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A beautiful morning to be at Sea #QNLZatSea
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Yesterday when @HMSDragon was assisting us with our sensors calibration trials. #QNLZatSea #DragonatSea
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Our friends from @CVN77_GHWB in action. #QNLZatSea
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Queen Elizabeth being stalked by the Iron Duke & the Duke of Sutherland, a new period drama for the BBC? #QNLZatSea
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Some footage of today's flypast by @CVN77_GHWB F18s. #QNLZatSea @USNavyEurope
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A stunning picture of us seen from Hilton of Cadboll credit @blue4ever09 #QNLZatSea
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Testing the pre-wet system results in a photo opportunity like this. Credit:CPO Johnson #QNLZatSea
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A perfect sunset at the end of another productive day on sea trials #QNLZatSea
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Myttin da Kernow. This morning’s view as we pass Lands End. #QNLZatSea
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Tune in to BBC2 at 2000 (UK) this Sunday to see the first of the three-part series, 'Britain's Biggest Warship Goes to Sea' by award-winning producer/director @ChrisTerrill. The programme follows us during first of class flight trials with F-35B during #WESTLANT18 #QNLZatSea twitter.com/NavyLookout/st…
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Today the 1st church service at sea was held on the flightdeck. Pennant is a tradition from Anglo-Dutch wars 17th century. #QNLZatSea
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QNLZ departs #Invergordon following in footsteps of @RoyalNavy carriers of the past that have operated from the Cromarty Firth. #QNLZatSea