The year 1944, the month June, the day the 6th. The commencement of the invasion of Europe with Operation Neptune to ...
24 November 2023
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 fresh appeal was launched in March 2004 to reach the Trust’s commitment of 29% of the funding total, required befor...
28 July 2022
In 1993 XH558 became the last Vulcan to leave RAF service, after a career of 33 years. At around 10am on the 23rd Mar...
23 June 2022
On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union began the Space Age by launching Sputnik 1. It was the world’s first artificial s...
23 June 2022
No. 27 Squadron flew the last Scampton Vulcan Sortie on the 31st March 1982, disbandment day, and handed over the mar...
27 May 2022
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
William Penney, the man in charge of Britain’s bomb design, William Cook, his deputy, and the scientists at the Atomi...
29 October 2021
January 1947 – Clement Attlee’s government had made the decision that Britain required an independent nuc...
28 August 2020
Two weeks before the first nuclear weapon was used for warfare, dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the result...
31 July 2020