On May 26 1960 the popular and highly respected Blount handed over command of 45 Squadron to his successor. That year he chose to leave the RAF and joined Hambros Bank, becoming a director in 1973 ...
Also in town from the United Kingdom is Bill Macleod, a 45-year aviation veteran who ... Macleod eventually became a flight commander for the RAF’s Bulldog Squadron. “The Air Force was going ...
On May 26 1960 the popular and highly respected Blount handed over command of 45 Squadron to his successor. That year he chose to leave the RAF and joined Hambros Bank, becoming a director in 1973 ...
He was awarded a scholarship to Sandhurst but instead chose to go to RAF College in Cranwell, Lincolnshire. He was posted to India in late 1942 to fly Wellingtons and Liberators with 215 Squadron ...
“He had been captured and taken to France, but he and a friend escaped to Britain together and joined the Polish Squadron of the British Royal Air Force,” he says. His dad and his English ...
commanded an RAF jet bomber squadron, served as an equerry to the late Queen and became a banker in the City of London. In November 1957, Blount was appointed to command 45 Squadron based in ...
Spain has ordered a total of 45 Eurofighters since 2022 ... and the F-35B Lightning II are known as the "thug and the assassin" in the United Kingdom's RAF. Regardless of whether the Spanish Air Force ...
Tributes have been paid to an air specialist based at RAF Brize Norton following his death at the end of last week.
The air force confirmed the canopy of the Typhoon, from XI (F) Sqn at RAF Coningsby, had been "jettisoned by the pilot" during a flight which took it over the North Sea. A spokesperson for the RAF ...
Say “Witam (Hello)” to the gallant exiled Polish pilots of the RAF’s 303 Squadron—aka, the 303rd “Tadeusz Kosciuszko Warsaw“ Fighter Squadron. 303 Squadron: Born in the Ashes of ...
When most military analysts discuss the strength of respective air forces within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO ...
This was a joint operation with the United States Air Force and the UK's Royal Air Force. The infrastructure ... The IAF's 120th "Desert Giants" Squadron, previously known as "The International ...