Captain Albert Ball is an icon of military aviation and one of my all-time heroes. We were both teenagers when we joined up to serve our country and our love of aviation meant we were soon flying the ...

The war was just weeks old. Britain - and its Royal Air Force - was braced for an aerial attack that never quite came. Then German bombers arrived over the Lothians. The Battle of the Forth Bridge - ...

Laura Jones reports on how the modern RAF is linked to the story of the Dambusters.

The headstone of a grave to the Dambusters’ dog – whose name is a racial slur – has been altered. The 617 Squadron, based at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, undertook a low-level night attack on German ...

Spitfires have soared over the heads of world leaders in Portsmouth in a spectacular flypast to mark the 75 th anniversary of D-Day. The historic Second World War fighter planes joined 26 RAF aircraft ...

The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight is at Liverpool John Lennon Airport this afternoon. A Spitfire and a Lancaster bomber were joined by a pair of RAF Typhoon fighters on the runway in Speke. The ...