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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
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
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
Avro_Lancaster_Bomber
Barnes Wallis The concept for the Dambusters raid was first proposed early in World War II by aeronauti...
31 March 2023
558 and Lancaster
With funds once again depleted XH558 had to sit patiently in her hangar after her all too brief taste of freedom. It ...
28 October 2022
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...
v-bombers
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
Cosford-1
Bob Tracey was a Club member and was a hangar volunteer during the restoration. (This article was originally publi...
20 December 2021
Roy Chadwick
With the dawning of the atomic age in August 1945, it was obvious to military strategists that any future bomber to d...
25 November 2021