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Doomsday-Clock-wide
The Doomsday Clock, a symbol created during the early years of the Cold War, serves as a metaphorical representa...
26 January 2024
558 and Lancaster
With funds once again depleted XH558 had to sit patiently in her hangar after her all too brief taste of freedom. It ...
28 October 2022
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...
XM607
No. 27 Squadron flew the last Scampton Vulcan Sortie on the 31st March 1982, disbandment day, and handed over the mar...
A-Blue-Danube-Mark-1-bomb-drops-away-from-a-Vickers-Valiant-B.1-bomber.-Ministry-of-Defense
On 16 July 1945, with the support of Britain, the United States detonated the world’s first atomic weapon. In August ...
Op_hurricane_earlystageexplosion
On 3 October 1952, Britain detonated their first atomic bomb.  Due to the small size and high-density populat...
Lancaster
On 9 January 1941, Avro test pilot, Captain Harry “Sam” Brown, made the first flight of the prototype Lancaster, BT30...
29 January 2021
Altglienicke, USA-Spionagetunnel unter DDR-Gebiet
On 19 October 1945, just over two months after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, English writer&nbs...
30 October 2020
Red-Steer-radar
An espionage story from 1966 – by Jim Debenham, VTST Volunteer If this were a fictional story it would h...
30 October 2020