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The world of UK Helicopter Search and Rescue (SAR) has gone through a historic transition over the past 12 months culminating today, January 1st 2016 at 0900. Both the distinctive yellow Royal Air Force and red and grey Royal Navy Sea King aircraft have bowed out and been replaced by [...]

The second retirement of Avro Vulcan XH558 has brought with it an incredible amount of attention not just from enthusiasts but also the wider public. In an attempt to show and preserve the memories of XH558’s last 8 years of flight following restoration, the team at AeroResource put out a request for [...]

  Just after 3pm on Wednesday October 28, 2015, Avro Vulcan XH558 made both it and the type’s final landing at Doncaster Robin Hood airport amidst a small group of onlookers, closing the curtain on the machines second coming. As had been alluded to in the weeks prior, the last flight itself was [...]

On 18th October 2007 an icon of British engineering returned to the skies following a lengthy and ground breaking restoration project – quite probably the largest of its kind. Since then, Avro Vulcan B.2 XH558 has captured the minds, souls and hearts of both enthusiast and general public alike. Now, [...]

Friday 31st July 2015 saw an historic moment for the British Army Air Corps (AAC), with the retirement of the Westland Lynx AH.7 helicopter. The Lynx has been a key asset to the AAC for just over 38 years, having first taken to the skies in June 1977 as a Lynx [...]

Firmly established as one of the UK's most popular family days out, Dunsfold Wings & Wheels will be returning to the historic setting of Dunsfold Aerodrome near Guildford, Surrey on Bank Holiday weekend Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th August 2015 for its eleventh successive year and, with thanks to the [...]

This summer’s extra-special 25th anniversary Silverstone Classic (24th -26th July) is going to be the most spectacular yet with a host of dazzling Silver Jubilee celebrations. In this amazing competition, we are giving away a pair of access all areas passes for the entire Silverstone Classic weekend worth £250. [...]

June 28th 2015 will see the retirement of a Channel Islands aviation Icon, G-JOEY the Britten Norman Trislander. JOEY is operated by Aurigny Air Services, based in Channel Islands. This much loved aircraft has seen just shy of 40 years service in its lifetime, 34 of those years with Aurigny [...]

We are offering two lucky readers the chance to each win a Pair of Weekend tickets to the RedBull Air Race 2015 at Ascot Racecourse worth £120 a pair! Ascot Track There are few sporting venues in the world that can match the history of Ascot Racecourse. This [...]

The 7th Special Operations Squadron, which forms part of the 352nd Special Operations Wing, based at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk has been undergoing several changes over the past 12 months, in line with an increase in capabilities and duties for the 352ndSOW as a whole. Duncan Monk and Ben Montgomery [...]

We are offering two lucky readers the chance to each win a pair of tickets to the Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton International Air Day 2015! Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton, Somerset will open its gates on Saturday 11th July for the Royal Navy’s premier airshow. Home to many Royal [...]

When Thomas Hawkins felled the first tree on an area of land next to the picturesque South Somerset village of Yeovilton, it heralded the beginning of what was to become one of the most important Military airfields in the United Kingdom. The Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton (HMS Heron) was [...]

We are offering a lucky reader the chance to win a pair of tickets to Royal Air Force Cosford Air Show 2015! Cosford Airshow 2015 Tickets are already on sale for the 2015 RAF Cosford Air Show on Sunday 14th June but one lucky reader will have the [...]

The A-10s from the 354th EFS (Expeditionary Fighter Squadron), 355th FW, based at David-Monthan AFB are the first of several planned theatre security package deployments to Europe under the operation name “Atlantic Resolve”. David Mackey gives an update on their time within the UK during a short deployment at RAF [...]

Four years after their last appearance in the United Kingdom, the fearsome A-10C Thunderbolt II has returned at RAF Lakenheath. Operated as a Theatre Security Package under Operation Atlantic Resolve, the aircraft are deployed at Spangdahlem AB in Germany – but paying a visit to Lakenheath, as David Mackey reports. [...]

On the 1st February 2015 five aircraft of the Army Historic Aircraft Flight were gifted and formally handed over to the Historic Aircraft Flight Trust and will remain based at their current location, AAC Middle Wallop in Hampshire. The future of the aircraft looks promising, as Duncan Monk reports. Formed [...]

January is normally a pretty dull month for aviation. The airshow season is a dim and distant memory, night shoots and other events are quickly fading and generally the weather precludes too many of us from getting out and about. Couple this with the usual post-Christmas blues, and it’s as [...]

On 9 January 2015 the next chapter of II(AC) Squadron starts as one of the oldest Squadrons in the Royal Air Force swaps its Tornado GR4s for Eurofighter Typhoons. Formed on 13 May 1912 at Farnborough, No. 2 Squadron was one of the first Royal Flying Corps Squadrons equipped with [...]

Starting life as the Future International Military Airlifter (FIMA), the Airbus Military A400M took to the air for the first time on 11 December 2009. Now, nearly 5 years on, the Royal Air Force has taken delivery of the first of their 22 planned airframes. Jamie Ewan was at RAF [...]

On Tuesday 16th September 2014 de Havilland Sea Vixen XP924 (G-CVIX), nicknamed ‘Foxy Lady’, was gifted to the Fly Navy Heritage Trust at a ceremony at RNAS Yeovilton in the presence of dignitaries, veterans and guests.  Richard Freail was there on behalf of AeroResource. At approximately 3.30pm on Tuesday afternoon [...]

There is no doubt that the vibrant warbird scene in the UK has seen some impressive - and often unique - formations and events over recent years, but even one year ago a meeting of two flying Lancasters and the sole flying Vulcan would have been dismissed as a pipe [...]