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A British plane left an RAF base to drop supplies; earlier Tony Abbott, the prime minister of Australia, said his country was preparing to join the aid flights.
Aircraft were used on occasion to drop supplies to cut-off or besieged forces, but the methods were primitive in the extreme: bags of food, medical supplies, or munitions were dropped from bomb racks or simply heaved over the side.
But to my mind, the true heroes were the pilots who risked their lives to drop supplies and later to pick her up and the friends who performed difficult and miraculous feats of generosity.
We had to drop supplies from the air and evacuate people using winches and ropes".
Australia, meanwhile, says it is sending aircraft to help drop supplies to thousands of members of the Yazidi minority trapped by IS fighters on Mount Sinjar in Iraq.
Tornado jets began leaving RAF Marham in Norfolk just after 14 00 BST (13:00 GMT) - destined for RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus - to help RAF C-130 Hercules cargo planes identify safe areas on the ground to drop supplies.
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US military cargo planes have dropped supplies, though not enough to prevent deaths from starvation.
Chartered planes swooped in and out, some dropping supplies to the town.
But for the first several days helicopters merely flew overhead, sometimes dropping supplies in the vicinity.
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