India training deal
THREE INDIAN Air Force instructors will train future RAF fast jet pilots at Valley following similar moves at Cranwell.
THREE INDIAN Air Force instructors will train future RAF fast jet pilots at Valley following similar moves at Cranwell.
Kirsty and women skiers dominate Inters
Armaments chief oversaw handling of nuclear weapons
“You don’t expect, at 22, to be displaying an iconic aircraft like the Vulcan... but there I was.”
ONE OF Britain’s oldest WWII veterans is being honoured at a special bash to mark his 108th birthday.
F-35 STEALTH fighters took off for Akrotiri to boost security as regional tensions threaten to escalate.
A £28 MILLION project to upgrade the airfield at RAF Coningsby is underway to support the station’s role defending UK air space.
TYPHOONS ARE taking part in one of the largest multinational air exercises in the Middle East, hosted by Saudi Arabia.
THE INTER-SERVICE title is “in our hands” said head coach FS Tom Richardson after the U23s recorded their first Inter-Services win since 2020, beating the Royal Navy 1-0.
SERVICE TENNIS is aiming for extra juice this year with the introduction of padel and pickleball and the publication of its season diary of training and matches.
TWO-WEEKS OF high-speed drama with personnel battling for 16 awards in ski, snowboard and telemark set the tone for a bumper RAF Championships in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria.
FOLLOWING THE 28-21 Cardiff Met Uni win, with scorers AS1(T) Ben Collins, AS1(T) Kieron Prescott, Cpl Callum Cload and Player of the Match AS1 Dan Gilbert, RAFRU took to Paton Field, home of Caldy RFC, on the Wirral.
SERVICE FISHERMEN didn’t rest on their frozen laurels, as five of them took part in the Minehead Specimen Boat Angling Competition, with WO Daz Rose coming second.
Nav survived more than 40 missions
DRONES FLYING near key airbases could be shot down under new powers.
FORCES MEDICAL responders in Lincolnshire struck it lucky –after landing more than £2,700 from the Service’s ten-pin bowlers.
FREE WI¡FI in airbase communal areas, contact houses used by separated parents and trainee accommodation at Halton is to continue after a new deal between Wifinity and the RAF Association.
TOP GUNS of tomorrow will get their first simulator flights after Lockheed Martin issued 700 licences to 20 ground schools and 500 cadet units across Britain.
RELATIVES of Air Force personnel who died without naming someone to receive their pensions are being urged to come forward.
£19,000 will help educate children in Kenya
CHINOOK CREWS braved Arctic conditions as they launched combat drills from Nato’s most remote operating base as the Alliance steps up security in the High North.
Cardiff Uni students put to sword before aviators test their mettle against Worcester professionals
Discovering the poignant messages from headstones of the lost souls of Bomber Command
THE UK’S Typhoon Top Guns have gone head to head with fifth-generation F-35s in the skies above the Nevada desert as Allies flex their combat muscle in the world’s biggest air combat drill.
A FORMER RAF pilot awarded the DFC for leading medical evacuation missions in Afghanistan has signed on at Cranwell’s Wall of Honour.
A TRIO of pioneering frontline female fighters are joining forces at Cranwell to highlight issues facing women recruits in the combat zone.
COMMANDOS WERE fast roped to the ground by Chinooks as they practised the frontline skills they will need on special operations in Europe.
RAF FOOTBALL paid tribute to one of its favourite sons after the passing of Flt Lt Roger Unwin MBE (Ret’d) following a short illness.
THE DRAW has been made for the semi-finals of the 2026 RAF football Challenge Cup, with last year’s Plate-winners Odiham facing Brize Norton if they can beat Leeming in their still-to-be-played quarter-final.
SUN AND success is the aim of the game for the Service’s senior men’s footballers as they head off to Cyprus for their last training camp before the Inter-Services.
RAF PARAGLIDING’ marked its second year above the RAF Alpine Championships at Saalbach-Hinterglemm and paid tribute to the memory of the late Flt Lt Geoff Corser.
THREE TEAM victories was the fantastic return for the Service from this year’s Sir Sefton Brancker Cross Country Championships at Halton.
AIR FORCE rider Rowan Duke earned her Sporting Colours at the RAF Championships on her horse King’s Silver, when they won the Medium Dressage class.
AROUND 80,000 military personnel living in single and unaccompanied accommodation in the UK and overseas will see their living conditions transformed through a new independent review.
AN 18 Sqn Chinook equipped with skis launched combat training sorties alongside the Commando Helicopter Force from Nato’s most northern base – Bardufoss in Norway.
A FORMER Iraq veteran has become the 35th Commandant-General of the RAF Regiment, a post established in 1942.
A WARTIME radar operator who guided RAF aircrews home has marked her 103rd birthday.
CONINGSBY PERSONNEL joined civic leaders to mark 85 years of community links with the station by planting an oak sapling at the nearby Allan Barker Sports Ground.
A 91-YEAR-OLD Air Force veteran physical training instructor has netted two gold medals in a local trampoline event.