The V-force was the name given to the Royal Air Force’s strategic nuclear bomber force during the Cold War. As ...
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There are up to 5 solar eclipses every year and a total solar eclipse about every 18 months. One of those total solar...
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I want to tell the story of a Canberra Medical trip I took part in sometime early in 1958, my Canberra logbook has sa...
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Navigator training in 1953-55
Navigator training was carried out at Air Navigation schools in Hullavington and Bis...
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Well-known and highly respected air show commentator Seán Maffett became synonymous with Vulcan displays and indeed w...
23 August 2023
Born in 1942, I obviously have few memories of WWII but one remains vivid. It is also the first distinct memory I hav...
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Ian Hamilton
I was posted to 44 Squadron (Rhodesia Squadron) from RAF Waddington in early 1964 as a 20 year old Ai...
28 July 2023
English Electric Canberra WK163 is one of Britain’s most important Cold War jet-age aircraft. She spent most of...
30 June 2023
Valiant Bomber 249 Squadron.
Ejection Seat chain of events.
I completed Boy Entrant training as an armourer...
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On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union began the Space Age by launching Sputnik 1. It was the world’s first artificial s...
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