Aeroplane Magazine

’THE SEA SHALL NOT HAVE THEM’

22nd May 2025

Many Allied airmen owed their survival to the RAF’s wartime...

Not many people have found themselves inverted over occupied Europe in a four-engined heavy bomber and lived to tell the tale. Avro Lancaster pilot Russell ‘Rusty’ Waughman recalls his wartime experience.

ON A WING AND A PRAYER

22nd May 2025

ROTARY PIONEERS

22nd May 2025

The first RAF helicopter pilot trainees learned their craft on...

Gloster Meteor

World Beaters

22nd May 2025

In re-forming its High Speed Flight after World War Two, the RAF had but one aim: to break the outright world air speed record. In doing so, the service generated considerable prestige for itself, and for the Gloster Meteor that made the feat possible

Gloster Meteor

World Beaters

22nd May 2025

”NOTHING OF VALUE IN IT”

22nd May 2025

That was Marshal of the Royal Air Force Baron Trenchard’s view...

SUNDERLAND SAVIOURS

22nd May 2025

RAF flying boats didn’t just deliver food and other supplies...

MAKING of a MASTER

22nd May 2025

The legend of Ray Hanna is known to all with an interest in historic...

Jet Provost – Transforming Training

22nd May 2025

’All-through’ jet training was an ambitious plan, but the...

Jet Provost – Transforming Training

22nd May 2025

’All-through’ jet training was an ambitious plan, but the...

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