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
A Story of Spirit, Co-operation and Collaboration
Back in October 2015 when XH558 landed at Finningley at the cess...
27 March 2024
I want to tell the story of a Canberra Medical trip I took part in sometime early in 1958, my Canberra logbook has sa...
20 December 2023
Sometime ago, while casually looking in my flying log book for entries involving XH558, a very similar Vulcan tail nu...
29 September 2023
Feature article on part of XH558’s 2013 Winter Service – by Sam Evans, airframe technician.
It’s wh...
1 June 2023
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
Following the transfer of the strategic deterrent role to the Royal Navy’s Polaris fleet, on 30th June 1969, the RAF ...
29 April 2022
A complete change in the role of the V- Bomber came about during 1963, when it became clear that in the absence of a ...
25 March 2022
Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown is credited with over 2,400 carrier landings (no one else has come close) as well as be...
8 March 2022