Historic

Dambusters

From Dambusters to bunker-busters

22nd May 2025

A brief note dated 3 August 1943 from Air Cdre Sydney Bufton, director of bomber operations at the Air Ministry, to Bomber Command’s Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief is a pointer towards one of the more notable inventions by Barnes Wallis, a “12,000lb deep penetration bomb” that would emerge as Tallboy.

Dambusters

How the Dambusters used Mustangs

22nd May 2025

One of 617’s pair of Mustang IIIs, showing its ‘Malcolm hood’...

Dambusters

How the Dambusters used Mustangs

22nd May 2025

One of 617’s pair of Mustang IIIs, showing its ‘Malcolm hood’...

TANKEX TO SYDNEY

22nd May 2025

Performing the first non-stop flight from England to Australia...

LEGENDARY YEARS

22nd May 2025

The 25th anniversary year of The Fighter Collection’s Flying...

LEGENDS YEAR-BY-YEAR

22nd May 2025

A three-ship Lysander formation seemed unthinkable, but it happened...

LEGENDS YEAR-BY-YEAR

22nd May 2025

2004 After a long restoration, TFC’s P-39Q Airacobra Brooklyn...

The SPECTACLE of SHUTTLEWORTH

22nd May 2025

The ever-increasing quality of the Shuttleworth Collection’s...

2018’S SHOWS AT SHUTTLEWORTH

22nd May 2025

Near the end of a long day for the collection’s groundcrew...

HANDLEY PAGE HASTINGS

22nd May 2025

The RAF’s standard long-range transport from the 1950s, a total...

Falklands Editor's Pick

RAF Harrier GR3 Falklands War Diary

22nd May 2025

When No 1(F) Squadron took the Harrier GR3 to war in the Falklands conflict, it had many chalenges to overcome, but did so in the best RAF traditions. Using recently released official documents, this is the unit’s Operation ‘Corporate’ diary