Draken lands deal
AERO-GIANT DRAKEN has landed a £173 million defence contract to provide ‘aggressor’ aircraft to train Air Force combat pilots.
AERO-GIANT DRAKEN has landed a £173 million defence contract to provide ‘aggressor’ aircraft to train Air Force combat pilots.
THE 93RD Sefton Brancker cross-country race at RAF Halton kicked off the Service sport’s first event of the year with a battling second place for the Air Force.
HUMANITARIAN AND Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) co-founder Sqn Ldr Jack Hemmings has died aged 103.
Reds tech Gary’s quarter of a century keeping aces airborne
CHEMICAL WARFARE specialists from the RAF Regiment took part in Nato’s first dedicated command and control exercise for years.
AIR FORCE maritime patrol aircraft are to form part of a new Nato unit to protect offshore infrastructure in the Baltic Sea.
Veteran Neil taking on Games with help of Benevolent Fund
Crew tracks breakaway super-berg
A FORMER Jaguar weapons technician is to lead the RAF’s Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
THE SERVICE’S skateboarding fraternity’s push to become a recognised sport will see it run monthly jam sessions throughout the year under the title ‘Skate-alive in 25’.
WOLVES WOMEN’S football manager Sgt Dan McNamara believes his team’s FA cup fifth round tie with Manchester United is vindication of the RAF Sports Federation’s Elite Athlete programme.
The RAF coaches who have helped UK Armed Forces football to reign supreme for a decade
MILITARY PERSONNEL can now have their say on the Armed Forces Covenant after defence chiefs lifted restrictions allowing them to give evidence to a government committee.
RIZE-BASED CPL Sian Murphy joined forces with her Kiwi counterparts Down Under as part of a drive to stamp out bullying and harassment in the military.
UK PERSONNEL promoting security in the Gulf on Operation Kipion braved searing heat as they hit the road for the annual Doha marathon.
PERSONNEL DUBBED the ‘Stabbed Cats’ because of their squadron emblem got a sneak preview of their latest aircraft at a Lincolnshire airbase.
COMRADES gathered to remember those on board a Hercules transport shot down in Iraq 20 years ago, killing all 10 personnel.
UK COMBAT JETS are taking part in the world’s biggest annual air combat drill as Exercise Red Flag takes off in America in its 50th year.
Players impress boss Gardner in the gloom at Cardiff Met
THERE WAS late Challenge Cup heartache for the RAF men’s rugby league stars at Aldershot as they lost 22-16 to the Army having led for 70 minutes of the rescheduled tie.
Hitting Hitler where it hurt
A FORMER soldier who lived through two bomb attacks in Afghanistan and went on to set up a charity battling PTSD has been brought in to give rookie aircrew advice on how to survive in the combat zone.
Allies’ JEDI pact eyes NATO seas
Valley team unearths historic Iron Age haul
Amazing story of an incredible man and his impressive siblings, as told by his critically-acclaimed intellgence historian great-nephew
FORMER COSFORD Station Commander Air Vice-Marshal Mark Hunt has secured a top job in aviation safety.
Risked seven extra sorties for sake of his flight engineer
RAF trio lead GB Invictus in the first ever 'double' games
THE SERVICE’S equine association is hoping the fabulous second place at the London International Horse Show, Olympia will spark further success this year.
INVICTUS GAMES athletes got in some late training at Tamworth Snowdome ahead of the 2025 event at Vancouver, Canada, this month.
AIR FORCE instructors at Cranwell have won a top award for teaching.
A PILOT who twice joined the RAF and served across the world celebrates his 100th birthday later this month.
TRIBUTES HAVE been paid to World War II pilot and founder of the world’s largest humanitarian airline Jack Hemmings, who has died age 103.
MUSICIANS WILL perform to remember 21 colleagues who died in a road crash 40 years ago.
Defending Indo-Pacific on Red Flag