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ML407 1944
The year 1944, the month June, the day the 6th. The commencement of the invasion of Europe with Operation Neptune to ...
24 November 2023
Roll Out 7
A fresh appeal was launched in March 2004 to reach the Trust’s commitment of 29% of the funding total, required befor...
Vulcan Restoration
In 1993 XH558 became the last Vulcan to leave RAF service, after a career of 33 years. At around 10am on the 23rd Mar...
The_Vulcan_at_RAF_Waddington,_1982
Header image: RAF Waddington 1982 | Engineers and flight crew with the Vulcan prior to deployment to Ascension Island...
23 June 2022
XM607
No. 27 Squadron flew the last Scampton Vulcan Sortie on the 31st March 1982, disbandment day, and handed over the mar...
Crater-Map-1982-Port-Stanley-2-740x639
2022 is the 40th Anniversary of The Falklands Conflict and the audacious Black Buck missions carried out by the Royal...
26 May 2022
Flag_of_the_Falkland_Islands
On 2 April 1982, Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands. It was the beginning of a ten-week conflict tha...
24 March 2022
XM607 and XM598 at Wideawake airfield on Ascension Island before Black Buck 1
Operation Black Buck was a series of seven ambitious long-distance ground-attack missions conducted by the Royal Air ...
4 November 2020
AERE-Bus-c-Brian-Matthews
January 1947 – Clement Attlee’s government had made the decision that Britain required an independent nuc...
Atomic_Energy_Act_of_1946_signing
Two weeks before the first nuclear weapon was used for warfare, dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the result...