Nine Wessexes were lost during the campaign. The RAF was the governmental entity to retire the Wessex, doing so in 2003. As for the actual H-34 Choctaw being “impersonated” (so to speak ...

A flyby from a Spitfire paid tribute to one of the last surviving members of Bomber Command, as a funeral was held for a ...

The government is investigating how many military personnel have been diagnosed with cancer, after claims that some ...

The Countess of Wessex, who is also President of Girlguiding ... starting with a review of HM Forces Gibraltar and a flypast by aircraft of the RAF. In the evening is the annual Queens Birthday ...

Bryan Wardell had a distinguished career in the RAF as a flight engineer during the Second World War. He died on January 31, and on Saturday a Spitfire flew overhead as part of his memorial service at ...

After advanced flying training at RAF Shawbury, he graduated from the Wessex Operational Conversion Unit in 1978 to join his first squadron, No 72 Squadron then based at Odiham in Hampshire ...

The RAF flight sergeant was told he had ten years ... Pilots and crew members who served on board helicopters such as Sea King, Wessex Puma and Chinook are among those who are taking legal action.

A Spitfire flew over Hampshire to mark the passing of a remarkable 103-year-old former RAF flight engineer. Bryan Wardell had a distinguished career in the RAF as a flight engineer during the Second ...

Fleet Air Arm in 1961 and with the Royal Air Force (RAF) the following year. One of the key differences between the Wessex and its Choctaw progenitor was the replacement of the piston engine ...