An RAF pilot has said he was "quite emotional" after making his final solo flight after a 45-year flying career which saw him amass about 16,000 hours in the air. Flt Lt Richard "Ricko" Offord ...

An RAF pilot has said he was "quite emotional" after making his final solo flight after a 45-year flying career which saw him amass about 16,000 hours in the air. Flt Lt Richard "Ricko" Offord, 64, ...

“To be able to come down today in uniform demonstrates how times ... David Eames spoke about his late father, Flight Lieutenant Bill Eames, originally from Enniskillen, who served in the RAF during ...

Just over half were in Australian squadrons; the rest were serving in Royal Air Force (RAF) squadrons ... evening of 11 June the squadron was patrolling over Ouistreham when Flight Lieutenant Henry ...

Tributes have been paid to a former RAF flight engineer from Swansea who set up anti-aircraft barrage balloons and went on to fly 30 bombing missions in the Second World War. Flight Lieutenant ...

Tributes have been paid to a former RAF flight engineer from Swansea who set up anti-aircraft barrage balloons and went on to fly 30 bombing missions in the Second World War. Flight Lieutenant Fred ...

In the early hours of Saturday, May 16, 1942 at RAF Sullom Voe in the remote Shetland ... Catalina AH535/J, piloted by 25-year-old Flight Lieutenant Robert Keddie, would patrol to the west of ...

A high-ranking RAF officer famed for his role in Royal Norfolk Show freefall parachute displays has been jailed for raping a young woman. Flight Lieutenant Michael Reeve, 32, from Aylsham ...

The walls are covered in black and white photos of young men in RAF uniforms lined up in front ... but with the rank of flight lieutenant. I was posted to Edinburgh and then Glasgow University ...

Flight Lieutenant Smith, from RAF Brize Norton, was awarded the Carmen’s Royal Air Force Cup for 2024. The award, founded by the Worshipful Company of Carmen in 2001, recognises the greatest ...

Until its closure in March 2023, the collection was on display in the RAF Scampton Heritage Centre ... crashed killing him and his navigator, Flight Lieutenant James Warwick.