The Northern Echo

RAF Squadron Leader celebrates 50 years in office

A SQUADRON leader at RAF Leeming is celebrating 50 years in the air force by mentoring service personnel of the future. Sqn Ldr Spike Wilson has been serving as a full-time reservist with the ...
The Daily Telegraph

Bomber Command memorial: The RAF bombers of the Second World War

Images from the RAF Museum of air and ground crews from the Second World War involved in flying and servicing its fleet of bombing aircraft. Of 125,000 aircrew who served in the strategic bomber force ...
BBC

MY TWO UNKNOWN RAF 61 SQUADRON 5 GROUP AIRCREW CHAPTER 2

“Reference your request in recent 50-61 Squadron’s Newsletter, I was with 61 at Woolfox, when your father was our squadron commander, and I was operating on the night on which he was killed” “We were ...
Daily Mail

RAF Top Gun pilots intercept 50 Russian jets in just four months as Putin's aircrews step up aggressive missions towards Nato airspace

Britain's squadron of top gun RAF pilots have intercepted Russian warplanes 50 times in just four months during their mission to protect Nato airspace from Vladimir Putin's forces. Typhoon pilots ...
Yahoo

Dempster Anderson, who brought flair to his role as commander of the RAF’s Queen’s Colour Squadron

Air Commodore Dempster Anderson, who has died aged 91, served in the RAF Regiment and commanded the RAF’s Queen’s Colour Squadron (QCS) on many important ceremonial occasions. Custodians of the RAF’s ...
The Aviationist

First F-35A Destined To The 495th Fighter Squadron At RAF Lakenheath Spotted During Test Flight

The F-35A bound to the recently reactivated 495th FS Valkyries has flown with the new markings and the “LN” tail code for the first time. The first F-35A Lightning II sporting the markings of the ...