The former Second World War RAF air base near York, Yorkshire Air Museum, has fired up the iconic British bomber engine The Hercules for the first time in 79 years. The Hercules engine ...

The fate of a WW2 bomber navigator who was missing presumed ... was told his plane took off from an RAF base at St Eval in Cornwall in 1943 but never returned. A family friend recently found ...

RAF sources are privately voicing concern over the continued use of charter flights in and out of Beirut airport over the UK's A400M transport aircraft based in Cyprus. The worries emerged as the ...

RAF transport aircraft and helicopters are also on standby. Airlines suspending flights to Lebanon because of the escalating violence means commercial escape routes could be cut off as the ...

China launched fresh, large-scale military exercises around Taiwan and its outlying islands on Monday as part of what it called a "stern warning" against "separatist acts by Taiwan independence ...

The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has announced the award of a £20 million contract to Mitie for crucial runway repairs at the RAF’s Mount Pleasant Complex in the Falkland Islands.

A suspected wartime artillery item discovered on a Somerset beach has been destroyed in a secure location by the Royal Navy. HM Coastguard Watchet responded to reports of the item on the shoreline ...

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Kate Winslet embodies the tenacity of the photographer Lee Miller, who documented World War II for British Vogue. By Lisa Kennedy When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

she received a crushing telegram from the U.S. military informing her that her husband had gone missing while serving in World War II. Mr. Elliott, now 79, said that his mother had told him that ...

The Duchess of Edinburgh was moved to tears after meeting refugees who fled to Chad to escape the civil war in neighbouring Sudan. Sophie hugged five women who had suffered sexual violence related ...

A hot air balloon struck and collapsed a radio tower in the US - the second time a balloon has hit the structure in 20 years. There were no reports of injuries in Friday's incident in Albuquerque ...