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By Tony Harmsworth 2nd June 2022

… day at the Shuttleworth evening airshow. Owned by the RAF Station Czechoslovakia organisation, on May 15 N3827, … were also restored at Henstridge by Crumplin — on the RAF Station Czechoslovakia fleet. Built at the Miles Aircraft … on communications duties between Penrhos, Speke and RAF Valley. … Czech Miles Magister flies following restoration …

By Key.Aero 31st May 2022

… Air Mobility Force assets are expected to participate from RAF Brize Norton , Oxfordshire. This includes three soon to … to be involved are the RC-135 Rivet Joint based at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire and the P-8A Poseidon from RAF … Cranwell, Lincolnshire, Texan T1s and Hawk T2s from RAF Valley, Anglesey. A single Phenom T1, ZM336 took part in the …

By Dino Carrara 26th May 2022

… (ret’d), whose book ‘Typhoon’ follows his career in the RAF and also what it was like leading a squadron on … in fact a low cloud layer rolling down the hill into the valley below and forming fog. I was totally disorientated. …

By Jon Lake and Angie Bee 13th September 2022

… into a small pocket in Syria’s Middle Euphrates River Valley (known as the MERV). Lt Col Daniel Lambert, 69th EBS … deployment of F-15C Eagles from the 48th Fighter Wing from RAF Lakenheath. The build-up came in response to threats … the 2022 Bomber Task Force deployment by four B-52Hs to RAF Fairford, a pair of aircraft conducted a presence patrol …

By MIKE HOOKS 8th July 2022

… 1935 appearance. In 1929, Flt Lt Nicholas Comper left the RAF and founded the Comper Aircraft Company at Hooton Park … said that apart from some poor weather down the Rhône Valley conditions were good. He mentioned a few incidents, …

By Josef Campion 30th March 2022

… by the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) to support the RAF’s fleet of Hawk T2s and the  Hawk T1s operated by the Red … Following this investment, hundreds of jobs at the home of RAF fast jet pilot training, RAF Valley in Anglesey will be supported and secured. A fleet of …

By GRAHAM PITCHFORK 9th July 2022

… coast and the formation headed down the snow-covered valley to Kaafjord. They achieved almost total surprise. …

By Andrew Fletcher 15th June 2022

… officer at Bomber Command, had informed No 1 PRU at RAF Benson in Oxfordshire that a most important sortie to … No 1 PRU was the first recipient of the Mosquito in the RAF. It was currently operating a detached flight of … in an effort to find the Thames and follow it through the valley. He levelled out at 850ft in order to avoid any …

By Alan Warnes 3rd May 2022

… Squadron F-15E Strike Eagle from the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath got down low as it passed through the Kalavryta Valley on March 29  All photos: Alan Warnes EXERCISE HISTORY … with ten F-15E Strike Eagles from the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath, 11 F-16I Sufa from 201 Squadron ‘The One …

By Josef Campion 27th March 2022

… spending the last two decades as an aggressor unit of the RAF, No 100 Squadron at RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire, laid down its sword as an … as the remaining aircraft are bound for storage at RAF Valley, Anglesey, and RAF Shawbury, Shropshire, in the coming …

By Ben Dunnell 18th April 2022

… career as ‘varied’ barely makes a start on it. As a young RAF airman he gained his pilot’s wings on a Tiger Moth in … any connection to Newquay Airport (the civil enclave at RAF St Mawgan). Thus was his operation formalised in late … operation took large numbers of passengers, not least at RAF open days in the south-west. Scillonia was always a …

22nd February 2022

… during the early stages of World War Two and known then as RAF Westhampnett, Goodwood Aerodrome was active with Hawker … fly those fighters KEY COLLECTION The sleek and shark-like RAF Texan I is more aerodynamic than its predecessor, but … the aircraft is operated by 72(Fighter) Squadron at RAF Valley, located on the island of Anglesey, just off the …

By Rod Dean 20th May 2022

… F-15D in Oman (where I was on loan for two years from the RAF). A pair of F-15s were taken out by a pair of old Hunters … The first event pitted four PAF Sabres against two RAF Hunters. The odds seemed slightly in favour of the home … when it transpired that the No.2 was a student on the Valley advanced flying course who had been ordered by his …

By James Peene 6th March 2022

… in the cockpit. My first tour was on the Tornado F.3 at RAF Leuchars [Scotland] on 43 Squadron. I had four happy … Hawk T2. I spent a total of five years instructing at RAF Valley [Wales] on advance flying training and then I came …

18th February 2022

… of the crews tasked to illuminate the target situated in a valley at the foot of steep hills. Searchlights and heavy … and adding a second Bar to his DFC. Martin remained in the RAF and in September 1947, flying a Mosquito, he set a record … Martin went on to have a distinguished career in the RAF. He served as Air Attaché in Israel, was AOC of No 38 …