An RAF pilot has said he was "quite emotional" after making his final solo flight after a 45-year flying career which saw him amass about 16,000 hours in the air. Flt Lt Richard "Ricko" Offord, 64 ...

An RAF pilot has said he was "quite emotional" after making his final solo flight after a 45-year flying career which saw him amass about 16,000 hours in the air. Flt Lt Richard "Ricko" Offord, 64 ...

Retiring the Harrier was an economic decision. Britain faced a £38 billion defense budget shortfall and couldn't cancel its ...

RAF Pilot Rick Offord who flew his last into RAF Leeming on Friday, June 6 as he turns 65 soon and you have to retire from flying at that age (Image: SARAH CALDECOTT) Mr Offord, who turns 65 this ...

During WW2, a covert mission saw Soviet pilots flying British Hurricanes in deadly Arctic dogfights. When one pilot rammed a German bomber mid-air and survived the crash alone behind enemy lines, the ...

One of the longest serving fast jet pilots at an RAF station in North Yorkshire has completed his final flight after a career spanning 45 years in the air. Known to colleagues and friends as ...

The best-selling author Frederick Forsyth, who has died at 86, was a former RAF pilot and investigative journalist who went on to write such novels as The Fox, The Kill List and The Odessa File.

A heroic RAF pilot from North Wales whose Second World War escape makes the Colditz breakout look a breeze is the subject of a new book. Frank Griffiths, who was born on the Wirral but grew up in ...

A Cold War fighter jet, which spent the majority of its service at RAF Binbrook, has been fired up for the first time in 18 years. Lightning XR724, was designed to intercept Soviet bombers and ...

A heroic RAF pilot from North Wales whose Second World War escape makes the Colditz breakout look a breeze is the subject of a new book. Frank Griffiths, who was born on the Wirral but grew up in ...

The first aerial confrontation occurred on 7th June when RAF pilots were dispatched to identify an aircraft leaving the Kaliningrad region, later confirmed to be an Antonov An-30, a Soviet-era ...