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Canberra-Akrotiri
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
XM605
Sometime ago, while casually looking in my flying log book for entries involving XH558, a very similar Vulcan tail nu...
29 September 2023
OFFUTT DET009
Moving XM573 into the Strategic Aerospace Museum in 1982 – Nebraska, USA  Wing Commander Adrian Sum...
23 August 2023
Award
Thirty years ago whilst serving as Wing Commander Ops & Pilot Training Wing (OC OPTW) at RAF Finningley, the Air ...
28 April 2023
Akrotiri
Valiant Bomber 249 Squadron. Ejection Seat chain of events. I completed Boy Entrant training as an armourer...
28 September 2022
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On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union began the Space Age by launching Sputnik 1. It was the world’s first artificial s...
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Header image | source: globalaviationresource.com For the first few years after her return to flight in 2007, Vulc...
11 February 2022
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The Vulcan to the Sky Trust (VTST) is often asked “where has all the money gone?” The simple answer is “Operating a f...
10 February 2022
Scramble Box
Recollections from Headquarters 1 Group RAF Bawtry Hall, RAF Finningley and the Bomber Box. Although I worked for ...
27 January 2022
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