VR kit cuts training costs
FUTURE FIGHTER pilots are using a new mixed-reality system at Valley which it’s hoped will save millions of pounds a year in training costs.
FUTURE FIGHTER pilots are using a new mixed-reality system at Valley which it’s hoped will save millions of pounds a year in training costs.
Inter-Service winning RAF Boxing makes history again
Chef ensures Nordic Challenge entrants have the stamina to take on the rugged Norwegian slopes
FLT LT GEORGE DUNN, who has died aged 103, flew 44 bombing missions over Germany in Halifax and Mosquito aircraft and later raised almost £100,000 for the RAF Benevolent Fund.
The RAF Canberra crews who came face to face with nuclear mushroom clouds
DAREDEVIL PARACHUTISTS the RAF Falcons marked the start of their 2026 display season with a spectacular launch day on home turf at Brize Norton.
SURVEILLANCE EXPERTS from across Nato joined forces at the UK’s first Protector International MQ-9B event at Waddington.
FUNDRAISING CPLS Zara Durrant and Hayley Court are teaming up to smash their £250,000 target to help fight PTSD in the British military.
RAF defeat Army but soldiers take the title
Thorney Weir proves a challenging prospect for anglers
ORGANISERS ARE hoping to be riding on the crest of a wave with a record entry for this year’s RAF Waterski Championships.
Sgt Lucy-Ann’s debut novel in the running for £50k literature prize
MOVERS MARKED two decades of supporting operations, at the RAF church of St Clement Danes.
CRANWELL MEDIC AS1 Jess Corps beat cancer to realise her dream of completing the London Marathon.
A FORMER Mosquito pilot who won the DFC has died aged 103 – just days before he was to be honoured at the RAFBF awards.
YOUNGSTERS TOOK to the air to prove their disabilities did not prevent them from getting a taste of what it’s like to be an RAF pilot.
BRITAIN’S MILITARY and Gulf partners are stepping up defences against drone attacks following trials of the new British-built Skyhammer interceptor missiles and launchers in Jordan.
FORMER ADVERSARIES came together as the RAF Regiment King’s Colour Sqn led a tribute to the Luftwaffe in London.
CHIEF OF the Air Staff, ACM Sir Harv Smyth evoked the spirit of the Battle of Britain as the latest Ukrainian fast jet and rotary pilots graduated after completing the RAF’s Elementary Flying Course.
RAF RUGBY LEAGUE stalwart Damian Clayton was among Service personnel honoured at this year’s UKAF Sports Awards.
AN ALL-ARMED-FORCES rugby game in Northern Ireland commemorated the life of SAS founding member Lt Col Robert ‘Paddy’ Blair Mayne DSO.
IN 1940 Winston Churchill set in motion the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and its network of secret agents. The operation required a clandestine transport infrastructure to support nascent resistance movements in Occupied Europe
BFSA duo conquer Ascension challenge
LEEMING HAS been crowned Station of the Year in the RAFBF awards for leading the fundraising charge and championing the Service charity’s welfare programmes.
Wills marks station 85th
RARE LINKS between fictional superspy James Bond and the RAF’s Battle of Britain pilots have been unearthed by researchers
RAF BIKE star Cpl Chris Taylor leads the Southwest BMX Regional Series after victory in the third round at the technically-demanding Decoy track, just outside Newton Abbot.
MEMBERS OF the Royal Air Force Cycling Association (RAFCA) almost had their overseas spring camp blown off course by strong winds and snow in Mallorca.
THERE WAS another trademark try for RAF and Red Roses hooker Flt Lt Amy Cokayne as England marched on in imposing style in their Women’s Six Nations (W6N) campaign in front of a sold-out crowd at Bristol’s Ashton Gate.
EX-543 SQN member Colin Duncan, 87, was among ground crew sent to Lima, Peru, in 1968 where the French were carrying out nuclear testing.
ACM SIR HARV SMYTH flew via Akrotiri to meet frontline personnel combating the Iranian drone threat.
THE UK’S 48th F-35B landed at Marham, marking the final delivery of the first Lightning procurement programme.
THE LAST Flying MiG-17F in Europe will be taking to the skies at the first Hampshire Air Festival this autumn.
CHILDREN JOINED Air Force veterans at their local station St Mawgan to test their flying skills by designing paper aircraft under the supervision of former Forces crews
BRITISH SERVICEWOMEN could be issued with new body armour specially designed for the female form by 2029, Defence chiefs say.