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v-force
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
XL388 during service
A Story of Spirit, Co-operation and Collaboration Back in October 2015 when XH558 landed at Finningley at the cess...
27 March 2024
Doomsday-Clock-wide
The Doomsday Clock, a symbol created during the early years of the Cold War, serves as a metaphorical representa...
26 January 2024
XM605
Sometime ago, while casually looking in my flying log book for entries involving XH558, a very similar Vulcan tail nu...
29 September 2023
Berlinermauer
Back in the summer of 1991 I had the good fortune to be invited by the then British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) to be th...
24 August 2023
Sean Dad
Well-known and highly respected air show commentator Seán Maffett became synonymous with Vulcan displays and indeed w...
23 August 2023
OFFUTT DET009
Moving XM573 into the Strategic Aerospace Museum in 1982 – Nebraska, USA  Wing Commander Adrian Sum...
23 August 2023
Yatesbury
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
Akrotiri
Valiant Bomber 249 Squadron. Ejection Seat chain of events. I completed Boy Entrant training as an armourer...
28 September 2022
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...