Written by Maroon Raman
From the time he was a young boy, standing by the fence at Heathrow Airport, watching plan...
27 June 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
Born in 1942, I obviously have few memories of WWII but one remains vivid. It is also the first distinct memory I hav...
23 August 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
If you were driving southbound between Doncaster and Stratford-upon-Avon (A1, A46, M1 and A46) on Tuesday 24 May...
27 May 2022
On 4 February 1955, the first production Vulcan B.1, XA889, made its maiden flight, flying with the original Vulcan w...
29 January 2021
The success of the Canberra as a research aircraft over the years is a testament to “Teddy” Petter’s original design....
12 October 2020
From February 1962 onwards two jets in every major RAF base, armed with nuclear weapons, were on standby for Quick Re...
12 October 2020
I had flown the Canberra B2 for three years before converting to the Photo Reconnaissance version in 1959. The differ...
12 October 2020
The maiden flight was on 2 March 1969. Some seven months later, on 1 October 1969, Concorde prototype 001 made the ty...
12 October 2020