Lancaster bombers flew more than 150,000 sorties between 1942 and 1945, including the famous Dambusters raid, which saw ...

Built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company (which eventually became one of the founding components of BAE Systems), the Blenheim made its maiden flight on April 12, 1935, under the designation of Type 142 ...

The RAF withdrew the Defiant from frontline duty due to the warbird’s limited endurance. When one thinks of gun turrets on World War II warplanes, one generally associates them with bombers, such as ...

I flew 36 missions and every time I went up my overriding thought is will I come back, but we had a job to do to defeat the Nazis and it had to be done”.

The UK's last flying Lancaster bomber has touched down for months of maintenance work. The Avro Lancaster PA474, which ...

In post-war London, James met Rudolph's daughter, Roswitha, at a cricket match. She was working as an au pair. The couple married in 1956, bringing together two families once divided by conflict.

A rare RAF Bomber Command map which helped guide Britain’s legendary Dambusters to victory against the Nazis during WW2 is ...

Michael Woods, 101 and from Dunstable, will be marching at the Cenotaph once again as part of the national Remembrance Sunday ...

The Terminal Air Traffic Control Centre coordinates movements at four key RAF stations. The princess was appointed royal honorary air commodore of the Lincolnshire base in 2023. The Battle of Britain ...

As the World War II bomber "Heaven Can Wait" was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944, the co-pilot managed a final salute to flyers in an adjacent plane before ...

The Defiant’s real-world combat performance can be summed up in a ten-word nutshell: great against enemy bombers, not so great against enemy fighters. In other words, it was more of an interceptor ...