This is not just a very early Royal Air Force jacket, but a very special jacket indeed. This is the first pattern RAF uniform that was worn when the RAF was formed in April 1918. This particular ...

Imagine filling your car with petrol as you drive at 70mph with the fuel coming down a hose from a tanker speeding in front of you that you have to line up with. That’s something like what ...

Photo: An RAF Flight Lieutenant Photo Interpreter busy with the tools of his trade - aerial photographs, stereoscopes and the plans of a target, in 1944. (Medmenham Collection) Aerial intelligence ...

Flight Lieutenant Bram van der Stok had ... in fact an Australian air force overcoat and a converted naval jacket and trousers, RAF shoes, and a beret. He bought a second-class ticket to Alkmaar ...

More than 200 items have been found during the dig at RAF Brize Norton. Work to identify the aircraft parts has begun, but an important data plate of a Horsa glider, a model used by British forces ...

May 15, 1940 In the first large scale “bombing war,” Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF ... June 20, 1941 As U.S. participation in World War II looks more likely, Secretary of War Henry Stimson ...

A SON of an RAF flight sergeant made an emotional journey to the exact spot where his father's plane crashed in the Second World War. Colin Whitehorn explained that his father, Rowland ...

Neil Galloway was, until midnight last Friday, an RAF flight sergeant, but 12 hours later he took holy orders and was ordained as a deacon in the Roman Catholic Church. The 42-year-old ...

This RAF drone flight is an early demonstration of the potential suitability of synthetic kerosene as a high-performance synthetic fuel. These are early and important steps in defining routes to net ...

THEY TOOK AN HONOR FLIGHT TO WASHINGTON ... STAYING IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL FOR EIGHT DAYS FREE O The three World War II veterans are all between the ages of 100 and 101. They'll be staying ...

A FORMER RAF leading aircraftman fulfilled a life-long ambition at the age of 90 - when he jetted off from Leeds Bradford Airport on his first-ever flight. Malcolm Shedlow made a memory to ...