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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...
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
No. 27 Squadron flew the last Scampton Vulcan Sortie on the 31st March 1982, disbandment day, and handed over the mar...
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...