The year 1944, the month June, the day the 6th. The commencement of the invasion of Europe with Operation Neptune to ...
24 November 2023
Navigator training in 1953-55
Navigator training was carried out at Air Navigation schools in Hullavington and Bis...
29 September 2023
Valiant Bomber 249 Squadron.
Ejection Seat chain of events.
I completed Boy Entrant training as an armourer...
28 September 2022
If you were driving southbound between Doncaster and Stratford-upon-Avon (A1, A46, M1 and A46) on Tuesday 24 May...
27 May 2022
In March 1959 I was posted to Headquarters Bomber Command (HWBC) at High Wycombe. At the time I was a Flight Lieutena...
27 January 2022
Vulcan to the Sky volunteer Geoff Higley, who lives in Grantham, was in the airforce for 20 years as a navi...
29 July 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
I had flown the Canberra B2 for three years before converting to the Photo Reconnaissance version in 1959. The differ...
12 October 2020
January 1947 – Clement Attlee’s government had made the decision that Britain required an independent nuc...
28 August 2020
Two weeks before the first nuclear weapon was used for warfare, dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the result...
31 July 2020