The V-force was the name given to the Royal Air Force’s strategic nuclear bomber force during the Cold War. As ...
27 June 2024
There are up to 5 solar eclipses every year and a total solar eclipse about every 18 months. One of those total solar...
26 April 2024
The year 1944, the month June, the day the 6th. The commencement of the invasion of Europe with Operation Neptune to ...
24 November 2023
Sometime ago, while casually looking in my flying log book for entries involving XH558, a very similar Vulcan tail nu...
29 September 2023
English Electric Canberra WK163 is one of Britain’s most important Cold War jet-age aircraft. She spent most of...
30 June 2023
Barnes Wallis
The concept for the Dambusters raid was first proposed early in World War II by aeronauti...
31 March 2023
The race was on again to prepare XH558 for the 2009 airshow season. A host of servicing requirements awaited the atte...
25 November 2022
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
Valiant Bomber 249 Squadron.
Ejection Seat chain of events.
I completed Boy Entrant training as an armourer...
28 September 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