NPAS Breaks New Ground with Beyond‑Line‑of‑Sight UAV Trial
The National Police Air Service (NPAS) has taken a significant step toward the future of UK airborne policing with the launch of its first Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) …
Wings Over The Mediterranean
With its proximity to both Northern Africa and the Middle East along with being a frontier into Europe the Mediterranean islands of Malta has huge strategic importance. With this in …
SARMeet 2025
The Galileo Search And Rescue meeting has become a firm favorite from military Search and Rescue helicopters units for many years now. This year being hosted by 243rd Helicopter Squadron, …
Wonderwall Meets Afterburner
When 90’s Britpop sensation Oasis announced they were reforming for a comeback tour, nobody would have thought the Gallagher brothers would be able to disrupt The Masterplan of the Royal …
Diamond Balloons
Many of us had Lockdown projects during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, for Bristol born balloon pilot Andrew Holly it was not re-decorating a room or studying a new language. Andrew …
Show Review: Bath Hot Air Balloon Club Night Glow 2024
A short Photo review of the Bath Hot Air Balloon Club Special Shape Inflation and Night Glow, in aid of Suicide Prevention UK and featured a number of local envelopes …
Show Review: Bristol Balloon Collectors Inflation Day 2024
Bristol has been well known for Hot Air Ballooning in the United Kingdom since Don Cameron introduced it with the ‘Bristol Belle’ in July 1967. However, as well as Cameron …
Show Review: Malta International Airshow 2023
Malta’s geographical location in the Mediterranean has allowed for their airshow to host some exotic aircraft over the years, from Libyan Chinooks to Egyptian K8’s. Whilst recent African participation has …
Museum Review: Flygvapenmuseum
Flygvapenmuseum – Swedish Air Force Museum Article originally published by Aviation News in March 2024 Situated on the historic and active Malmen Air Base in Malmslätt, the Flygvapenmuseum is the official …
Show Review: Royal International Air Tattoo 2023
During July RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire becomes a hive of activity as the Royal International Air Tattoo takes place. One of the largest military airshows in the world is held …
Trip Report: Italy 2023
The rumours of a grand Italian celebration for the Aeronautica Militare centenary were flying around even before the RAF 100 was over and done with. A show that had so …
Museum Review: National Museum of Military History, Sofia, Bulgaria
Located on a side road in a suburb of Sofia, Close to the Borisova Gradina Park. The National Museum of Military History documents the history of all three of the …
Article: 736 Naval Air Squadron and the Hawk T1
Its the 1st March 2022 and the sea fog is rolling in off the English channel, on a quiet corner of RNAS Culdrose lies the hangar of 736 Naval Air …
Article: PytchAir
When Boeing 727-46 VP-CMN left Filton in 2012 I don’t think anyone would have thought that it would be returning to Bristol in 2021. But thanks to Brislington based Pytch …
Article: Deputy Secretary of Defense Visits RAF Fairford
On a very damp Monday afternoon in October SAM 606 touched down on Runway 27 at Royal Air Force Fairford carrying The Honourable David L. Norquist, the Deputy Secretary of …
Article: Great Western Air Ambulance Charity
Twelve years ago, the Bristol, Bath and Gloucestershire area was the last in mainland Great Britain not to have an Air Ambulance. Roll on to 2020 and the Great Western …
Trip Report: Estonia 2019
In the year in which the Estonian Air Force celebrates its 100th anniversary and NATO celebrates its 70th South West Aviation Photographers sent Matt Sudol to the Baltic state to spend …
Military Exercise: Bomber Force Deployment 20-1
Almost as soon as the the previous B-2 Spirit deployment was over so the second B-52 deployment of 2019 to RAF Fairford was underway, with four of the eight-engine strategic …
Military Exercise: Bomber Force Deployment 2019
Royal Air Force Fairford has seen many United States Air Force (USAF) Bomber deployments over the years but none quite like this in a long time. In the pitch dark …
Trip Report: France 2019
2019 saw NATO Tiger Meet head to the French airfield BA 118 Mont-de-Marsan the home of the EC 3/30 of the Armée de l’Air and their Rafale multi role combat …