The British Rail Class 37 is a diesel-electric locomotive that was built by English Electric at the Vulcan Foundry. T...
26 January 2024
You may have seen a dark blue vintage van parked next to XH558 during our Airside Tours and Engine Ground Runs. ...
28 July 2023
Valiant Bomber 249 Squadron.
Ejection Seat chain of events.
I completed Boy Entrant training as an armourer...
28 September 2022
On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union began the Space Age by launching Sputnik 1. It was the world’s first artificial s...
23 June 2022
Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown is credited with over 2,400 carrier landings (no one else has come close) as well as be...
8 March 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
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
William Penney, the man in charge of Britain’s bomb design, William Cook, his deputy, and the scientists at the Atomi...
29 October 2021
Vulcan to the Sky volunteer Geoff Higley, who lives in Grantham, was in the airforce for 20 years as a navi...
29 July 2021