Vulcan ops at Masirah
The RAF station at Masirah, off the Omani coast, was an unusual outpost for the Vulcan force usually stationed at Akrotiri, Cyprus, but it provided some memorable training
When RAF Canberras surveyed the Yemen
When the RAF was tasked with a survey of North Yemen, it fell to No 13 Squadron and its Canberra PR9s to do the honours. Operation ‘Hayrack’ was the dusty desert deployment that resulted
“My pilots loved this beautiful bird” – US Army Air Force Mosquitos
That comment by one unit commander sums up the views of many in the US Army Air Forces on the de Havilland Mosquito, an aircraft that served the AAF in relatively small numbers, but was arguably superior to anything American makers offered
'I flew 200 miles in the Grand Canyon': RCAF Argus pilot memories
Andy Bryski, a former Argus captain and display pilot describes to Tony Fairbairn what it was like to fly this, one of the last great piston-engined heavyweights.
The secret Cold War RAF missions to test Soviet radars
Radio Proving Flights: the innocuous name given to top-secret electronic intelligence-gathering sorties, approved at the highest level, probing the performance of Soviet radar systems. In a lesser-known facet of its brief RAF service, the Boeing Washington was among the platforms that undertook this crucial Cold War role.
