The Royal Air Force is for the first time using the “spoils of war” captured from Argentina in the 1982 Falklands Conflict to provide aircraft and parts in front-line squadrons. A senior RAF ...
increased stealth and the ability to work alongside unmanned combat aircraft expected to bolster the RAF’s defence capabilities. Dr James Bosbotini told Force News: "It's bringing in a quantum ...
The Royal Air Force largest ever aircraft with a 60 metre wingspan and nearly 60 metres long arrived in the UK for the first time this week, the MOD has announced. The new future strategic tanker ...
But there were still no aircraft for them to fly. Considering the equipment shortage, many crew members were loaned out to RAF squadrons to gain combat experience. Flying the Liberty DH-4 ...
PARTS of the last surviving Blackburn Beverley aircraft took 'flight' over the ... Despite precautions ahead of the weather warning, the iconic RAF plane, currently under restoration by ...
Fighter Command was one of three functional commands – along with Bomber Command and Coastal Command – of the Royal Air Force. It was formed in 1936 to allow more specialised control of ...
Major Christopher Draper shot down nine German aircraft and balloons during the ... At the start of the Second World War, he returned to the RAF and became the only person to command a squadron ...
Since opening in 1972, the RAF Museum has gathered a collection of ... used during the Cold War era and the Avro 504K which served way back during WW1. Besides the planes, the museum has an ...