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19th November 2020

… SR-71 SECRETS Life at Mach 3+ RAF SPECIAL: SQUADRON BOSS INSIGHTS • Cold War Buccaneers • 10 Sqn VC10s PLUS… Poseidon Arrives at Lossiemouth MOHAWK SCOUTS Peeking Behind the Iron Curtain …

By Nicholas Jones 7th December 2020

… Mk100s, serials VA+229, VA+230 and VA+231, up from RNAS Lossiemouth during training. The Marineflieger examples were … warfare or ‘UJ’ (U-Boot-Jagd) outfit with Gannets — at Lossiemouth and Eglinton on 19-20  May 1958. Both were, at … Lossiemouth. VIA NICHOLAS JONES One day, over lunch at the RAF Club, Eric told me he got to know Grand Admiral Erich …

By Khalem Chapman 21st May 2020

… Royal Air Force (RAF) Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4s have conducted a training … the North Sea. Typhoons – operated by No 1(F) Squadron at RAF Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland – escorted a B-1B Lancer as it …

By Khalem Chapman 30th April 2020

… Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4s from the Royal Air Force’s (RAF’s) No 6 Squadron have arrived in Lithuania to support … Baltic Air Policing (BAP) mission. The aircraft departed RAF Lossiemouth in Moray, Scotland, and arrived at Šiauliai air …

By Khalem Chapman 7th April 2020

… The Royal Air Force (RAF) has formally declared that its Boeing P-8A Poseidon MRA1 … IOC on the P-8A fleet on April 1. In a media release, the RAF stated that “Poseidon will now be patrolling our seas, … this programme, which is moving fast and the team at RAF Lossiemouth has delivered some great results in very quick …

1st October 2020

… Fighter Squadron, having taken off from the home base of RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, at 1657hrs using the callsign ‘Cuppy … July 1973, F-111F 72-1447 was assigned to the 48th TFW at RAF Lakenheath. Here, it is taxiing out for a sortie while on … Sea King search and rescue helicopter scrambled from RAF Lossiemouth, Moray, where they were given a check-up before …

By Dino Carrara 19th March 2020

… The RAF has been highly secretive over the years about the … what would be revealed at a recent press event held at RAF Waddington. This RC-135W, ZZ664, is the first Rivet Joint … carrier with F-35s in the North Atlantic, Typhoons out of Lossiemouth all working in the High North area sharing data …

By Khalem Chapman 13th March 2020

… Second RAF Boeing P-8A Poseidon MRA1 Lands in the UK The aircraft – … in northern Scotland on March 13. Kinloss is a former RAF station, previously home to UK maritime patrol aircraft … landing ground for aircraft operating from nearby RAF Lossiemouth, which is currently undergoing runway resurfacing …

By Chris Croot 19th August 2020

… The RAF’s military display teams may have seen the airshow season … Arrows to find out more. The Chinook Display Team based at RAF Odiham in Hampshire is responsible for showcasing the … to help support the NHS, including a detachment to RAF Lossiemouth to provide additional aero-med capacity to the …

By DR KEVIN WRIGHT 20th August 2020

… For two ground tours, RAF Phantom navigator Wg Cdr Steve Lungley (ret’d) was part … the former was arranged by 11 (Air Defence) Group at RAF Bentley Priory, Middlesex and was intended to fill in … its own, but provided turnaround bases at RAF Kinloss and Lossiemouth. “A roughly 100-mile deep strip of French …

By Malcolm V Lowe 1st September 2020

… thinking was linked to the continuing evolution of the RAF’s land-based Spitfire, and the potential for … The FAA’s operational Seafires were allied to the RAF’s Spitfire Mk.V series, which was supplanted in RAF … over Sky. Seafire F.46, LA546/900/LM, Station Flight RNAS Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland, 1948. This aircraft was the …

By Peter Cooper 31st July 2020

… to the Aircraft Holding Unit at Royal Naval Air Station Lossiemouth, Moray, on June 9 that year. On May 3, 1968, it … and was returned to 809 NAS, at the navy’s detachment at RAF Honington, Suffolk, where it was re-coded as 035/R. In … from the ship, then sailing in the Mediterranean Sea, to RAF St Athan, Glamorgan, for temporary storage on November …

By Khalem Chapman 4th February 2020

… First RAF Boeing P-8A Poseidon MRA1 Lands in the UK The Royal Air Force’s (RAF’s) first Boeing P-8A Poseidon MRA1 – serial ZP801 (c/n … landing ground for aircraft operating from nearby RAF Lossiemouth, which is currently undergoing runway resurfacing …

By Ben Dunnell 9th July 2020

… and September 1935, it deserved better than to sit in the RAF Museum’ Stafford store. At long last, during 2016, there … there it saw out the peacetime years. Impressment into RAF service followed in February 1941, the serial DG590 being … issued. Assignments included No 46 Maintenance Unit at Lossiemouth from January-October 1942, followed during 1943 …

By TOM EELES 13th August 2020

… attacks over Scotland in anticipation, deploying to Lossiemouth from 15-17 September and working with No 21 … to wing commander and moved back to Scotland to command RAF Drem, the station he had just left. He spent the rest of …