Service Unit Aircraft / Role From Date From Date To To RAF No. 15 Flight Training School (15 FTS) North American Harvard, Airspeed Oxford, Hawker Hart, Miles Master Formed 1 May 1939 20 April 1940 RAF Middle Wallop RAF No. 46 Maintenance Unit Various Formed 15 April 1940 15 February ...
Shadow R1 aircraft from No. 14 Squadron RAF P-8 Poseidon aircraft from RAF Lossiemouth (deployed in October 2023 in conjunction with the Royal Navy's Littoral Response Group (South) in response to the outbreak of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war). Elements of the RAF A4 Force RAF Akrotiri ...
The world’s first air hijack Posted by Peter Dickens 1 So, here’s an interesting “first” for South Africa, we are the first nation who can hold up the very first aircraft hijacker as our own. Now, it’s not what you think, he’s not your deranged Islamic extremist or strait ...
In January of 1942, the Liberator II entered service with RAF Bomber Command. The Liberator II equipped Nos. 159 and 160 Squadrons, which became the first bomber units to operate this type of aircraft. They operated initially in the Middle East theatre of operations, but were later transferred...
from Yokohama to a Soviet port in Siberia, then board the fabled Trans-Siberian Railway to Lake Baikal, and then by more trains and aircraft to Moscow. The Vienna Express would leave Moscow, and the Orient Express would then take us to Paris and London, and finally b...