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  • GCAP build underway

    WORK BUILDING the flying prototype of the UKís first sixth generation fighter is underway and RAF and industry test pilots have already flown more than 300 hours in a simulator designed to support the project.

  • Chop Guns on target

    HELICOPTER AIRCREW have been learning to fight above the rolling North Yorkshire landscape in their latest combat training.

  • Reaper strike

    A REAPER armed with Hellfire missiles tracked and eliminated a Daesh terrorist on a motorbike according to information just released.

  • The renegade Hunter pilot who buzzed Parliament and flew through Tower Bridge

    FLT LT Alan Pollock, who has died aged 89, gained national notoriety in 1968 when, following the failure of the Government to recognise the 50th anniversary of the founding of the RAF, he flew his Hawker Hunter jet fighter past the Houses of Parliament at very low level before departing along the River Thames and flying ‘through’ Tower Bridge.

  • Poppy power

    AIR FORCE personnel who sowed poppies around St Mawgan’s war memorial have won a top honour.

  • Spit Ace exhibit

    A ROLLS Royce Merlin Mk XII engine from a Spitfire flown by some of the Battle of Britain’s most celebrated Polish Aces is now on display at the Kent home of the National Memorial to the Few.

  • Shawbury landmark

    FUTURE WARFIGHTERS gathered with comrades from the past to mark 75 years of RAF air operations training at Shawbury.

  • Crunch time for tech team

    BRIZE CYBER warriors teamed up with their French counerparts at the Oxfordshire station to hone their high tech skills in a joint exercise.

  • Reading set to go global

    A NEW headquarters that will deliver a sixth-generation supersonic stealth fighter jet for the RAF has opened in Reading.