Avro Vulcan bombers stand lined up at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire in 1960 - Getty It’s ironic that the finest hour of Britain’s V-Force of strategic nuclear bombers came long after it had been stripped ...

Wing Cdr Phil Davies, 73, from Lincolnshire, flew the plane for its final flight 10 years ago and said it was important to ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Since the Avro 730 never actually flew, we can only speculate about how it would have performed. Had history turned out differently, the first Mach 3 spy plane of the ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The bomber was to be constructed at the same time that British defence planners concluded that missiles could shoot down any plane, no matter its height. While this ...

The UK's last flying Lancaster bomber has touched down for months of maintenance work. The Avro Lancaster PA474, which ...

After Argentina seized the Falklands in April 1982, the British began planning to retake them. Planning was complicated by the vast distances between the Falklands and British bases. So the British ...

The British Vulcan B2 bomber was a marvel of Cold War aviation capable of flying above 50,000 feet at speeds exceeding 600 miles per hour, it represented the pinnacle of strategic bombing technology ...

Before dawn one morning last week a bomber of the Royal Air Force glided in over the Stavanger airport, only big field in craggy Norway’s west. Down went a magnesium flare and, in a few moments, up in ...