Aurigny customer service, and high fares. Many of these complaints have been about, or due to, the removal of the Britten-Norman Trislander fleet and the acquisition of four Dornier 228 aircraft. These aircraft have suffered continual technical issues, resulting in high cost to the airline and frequent delays or cancelations to flights to and from Alderney. The airline was forced to reschedule it's celebratory last Trislander 'joy-flights' three times due to continued technical problems with the Dornier fleet. On 9 June 2017, Aurigny withdrew the island's medevac service outside of normal hours, meaning Alderney residents could only be transferred to hospital
Death to the French new boots, a shave, and his first ration of bread & salt in months. In "Sharpe's Escape" (2004), one of Bernard Cornwell's Richard Sharpe novels (which were partly inspired by "Death to the French"), a Rifleman named Matthew Dodd is separated from Sharpe's company in a skirmish during the Peninsular Campaign in 1810. Cornwell has acknowledged on his website that this character is intended to be the same individual depicted by Forester in "Death to the French". Death to the French Death to the French is a 1932 novel of the Peninsular War during the Napoleonic Wars, written by C.