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By Jamie Hunter 17th May 2018

… its impressive combat record, and it will continue as the RAF looks towards the type’s impending withdrawal from … dispatching a pair of bunkerbusting Storm Shadows, the RAF Tornados were taking part in a co-ordinated mission that … stint in theatre, it re-equipped with Typhoon FGR4s at RAF Lossiemouth. Meanwhile, to help sustain Shader, No 12(B) …

21st December 2017

… ‘Vampire 21’. John Reid EUROFIGHTER TYPHOONS of the RAF’s No II (Army Cooperation) Squadron at RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland, conducted live firings of ASRAAM …

19th April 2018

… US Navy Boeing E-6B Mercury, 163918, departing RAF Mildenhall on March 25. It had arrived on detachment on … DOWN 28/2 G-ETPG H125 arrived on delivery to ETPS. RAF BRIZE NORTON 7/2 01 C-17A NATO SAC n/s. 9/2 0452 C-295M … o/s. RAF CONINGSBY 9/2 ZJ811/811 Typhoon T3 arrived from Lossiemouth for Reduction to Produce. 12/2 ZJ912/912 Typhoon …

19th April 2018

… THE US Air Force’s Open Skies OC-135B 61-2670 arrived at RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire from Ramstein Air Base, Germany … The same afternoon it flew from Prestwick over Jura, RAF Lossiemouth, Loch Ness and Leuchars before returning to …

19th April 2018

… jets remain dedicated to Operation Shader, flying from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. Thanks to efforts by the coalition – in which the RAF has been an important partner – so-called Islamic State … air force’ and the P-8 – due to be introduced at RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland, from 2019 – will be equally …

By Nigel Price 19th April 2018

… for May 16, 1943. This historic document is held at the RAF College Cranwell, Lincolnshire. May 16, 1943. Britain and … Nazi’s industrial heartland was a prime objective for the RAF’s Bomber Command, and the newly-formed 617 Sqn aimed to … to its RAF movement card, ED932 was transferred to the RAF Lossiemouth-based 46 Maintenance Unit on February 7, 1945 for …

21st December 2017

… to certify the maritime patrol aircraft by early 2019. The RAF will receive the first of nine Poseidons later the same year and the fleet will be based at RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland. … RAF pilot displays Poseidon at …

By DR KEVIN WRIGHT 19th April 2018

… 10, 1962. MoD No.617 Sqn re-formed at its wartime home of RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire, on May 1, 1958 with Vulcan B.1s, … declared a generation exercise and so XH499 went to Lossiemouth in Scotland for its part in the dispersal plan, … [and rack] fall away and make a huge splash in the water.” RAF Scampton-based Vulcan B.2 XL317 of 617 Sqn, painted in …

15th March 2018

… Air Force Lockheed Martin KC-130J, KAF 328, on approach to RAF Brize Norton on January 30. It departed on February 1. Richard Eccleston RAF BRIZE NORTON 4/1 ZJ186 & ZJ190 Apache AH1s 3/4 Regts, … 28/1 J-362 F-16AM 322 Sqn, Royal Netherlands AF o/s. RAF LOSSIEMOUTH 1/12 T-784 Citation 560XL LTDB, Swiss AF also 3rd …

15th March 2018

… a two-part feature, Jamie Hunter visits No 29 Squadron at RAF Coningsby to learn how the Royal Air Force trains new … the Typhoon. With just an hour of live flying time in the RAF’s premier multi-role fighter under his belt, it’s time to … OCU and heading north to join a frontline squadron at RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland. “I started here in July 2017 having …

By Ben Dunnell 8th March 2018

… Looking ahead to the season’s major RAF 100 events BEN DUNNELL 2018 promises to be the busiest … Display Team, given the 100th anniversaries of both the RAF and, in November, the armistice that marked the end of … squadrons — and northern QRA — have already moved to Lossiemouth, which is now the RAF’s only front-line flying …

8th March 2018

… contests — but, even so, he was key to making possible the RAF involvement that led to British success Upon its … Force Hugh Trenchard was initially unhappy at seeing the RAF get involved in what he considered a private race, … facing starvation in Nepal. 30 May 1973 No 226 OCU at Lossiemouth takes delivery of the first two SEPECAT Jaguar …

15th February 2018

… Tu-160 RF-94102 ‘Vasiliy Reshetnikov’, photographed by an RAF Typhoon on January 15. In 2015 this aircraft was … repair and upgrade to Tu-160M1 standard in Kazan. RAF Lossiemouth/Crown Copyright A PAIR of Vozdushno- …

By NIGEL WALPOLE 8th March 2018

… much in evidence even in the formative years of Hanna’s RAF service, whether engaged in low-level fighter … at Feltwell on the Harvard IIb. RAY HANNA COLLECTION The RAF Feltwell rugby team of 1950-51. Ray is in the front row, … ‘Granby’. 17 April 1991 WL757, a Shackleton AEW2 of Lossiemouth-based No 8 Squadron, makes the venerable Avro …

By Hugh Trevor 15th March 2018

… onlookers. This is not a scene from the Lightning lair at RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, during the Cold War in the late … the nascent LPG (including the author) coalesced around RAF Binbrook’s Crash Gate 3 – contemplating the depressing … and the Eurofighter Typhoon squadrons about to move to RAF Lossiemouth in Moray, the airframe was put up for disposal. …