During World War II, British RAF crews flew the Handley Page Hampden on dangerous bombing missions over Nazi Germany. The aircraft was narrow, cramped, and offered little protection against enemy fire ...

Among the survivors of the relentless, high-altitude peril during World War II was a 23-year-old Army Air Force captain, R.C. Franklin of Mojave.

R.A.F. Fairford was the site of repeated antiwar protests during the Iraq war in 2003. Now it is being used again as a base ...

The Blackburn Roc was supposed to be a revolutionary turret fighter, built on the belief that flexible guns could outmatch conventional fighters in the air. Instead, it quickly proved too slow and too ...

In truth, Saro had been working on the concept for a twin-engine, jet-powered flying boat since at least 1943 under Air Ministry specification E.6/44. In our last item regarding a flying boat built by ...

The iconic 70-year-old spy plane is receiving updates to its AN/ALQ-221 Advanced Defensive System. Despite ever changing plans to retire the type in the next few years, the U.S. Air Force's U-2 Dragon ...

Operation Epic Fury has now entered the third week, with additional bombers arriving at RAF Fairford and a Marine Expeditionary Unit headed to the Middle East. After being initially expected to last ...