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The Doomsday Clock, a symbol created during the early years of the Cold War, serves as a metaphorical representa...

Sometime ago, while casually looking in my flying log book for entries involving XH558, a very similar Vulcan tail nu...

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...

You may have seen a dark blue vintage van parked next to XH558 during our Airside Tours and Engine Ground Runs. ...

Ian Hamilton I was posted to 44 Squadron (Rhodesia Squadron) from RAF Waddington in early 1964 as a 20 year old Ai...

Valiant Bomber 249 Squadron. Ejection Seat chain of events. I completed Boy Entrant training as an armourer...

A fresh appeal was launched in March 2004 to reach the Trust’s commitment of 29% of the funding total, required befor...

In 1993 XH558 became the last Vulcan to leave RAF service, after a career of 33 years. At around 10am on the 23rd Mar...

On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union began the Space Age by launching Sputnik 1. It was the world’s first artificial s...

Header image: RAF Waddington 1982 | Engineers and flight crew with the Vulcan prior to deployment to Ascension Island...