Construction firm, Balfour Beatty, has recently completed work at RAF Brize Norton to develop a maintenance facility for the A400M, or Atlas. The three-bay hangar will service the 22 A400M aircraft that are due to replace the RAF’s C130 Hercules, supporting the deployment of the Joint Rapid Reaction Force. At 45m ...
The first new rotorcraft, one of 32 which will be used to deliver training to RAF and Army Air Corps, has been delivered to Airbus Helicopters UK. The rotorcraft will now be refitted with UK specific mission equipment at Airbus Helicopters UK, Oxford and then handed over to Ascent Flight Training ...
RAF Waddington has fully reopened its runway after a heavily delayed £35.4M upgrade was finally completed. The runway was closed in late 2014 to allow the work to be undertaken with expectation that it would be back in action within 12 months. Described by the RAF as one of the “most challenging defence ...
Experts at the RAF Museum in Cosford have painstakingly restored a World War II bomber. The restored aircraft is one of only three Hampden bombers of the original 1,430 manufactured to survive. On 5th September 1942, the plane was forced to crash land in woodland with only Pilot Officer Esmond Perry and ...
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