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You may have seen a dark blue vintage van parked next to XH558 during our Airside Tours and Engine Ground Runs. ...
28 July 2023
A-Thor-missile-is-loaded-onto-a-Douglas-C-133-Cargomaster-transport-aircraft
On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union began the Space Age by launching Sputnik 1. It was the world’s first artificial s...
XM607
Following the transfer of the strategic deterrent role to the Royal Navy’s Polaris fleet, on 30th June 1969, the RAF ...
XM657
A complete change in the role of the V- Bomber came about during 1963, when it became clear that in the absence of a ...
Roy Chadwick
With the dawning of the atomic age in August 1945, it was obvious to military strategists that any future bomber to d...
25 November 2021
XD822-RAF-Valiant-B.1.-Prestwick-28-May-1960.-Scanned-from-my-fathers-original-negative-©Jim-Cain
William Penney, the man in charge of Britain’s bomb design, William Cook, his deputy, and the scientists at the Atomi...