RAF Museum Blog Posts

In this last of his Sopwith blogs, Julian Hale examines the development of the ground-attack Sopwith Salamander

On 22 June 1948 - 70 years ago - HMT Empire Windrush reached its destination in Tilbury bringing the Windrush generation to their new home

As promised this blog post is about the stories of outstanding RAF men, heroes featured in our brand-new exhibition.

Our new exhibitions are featuring some incredible personal stories of the RAF women. Come and discover them from 30 June onwards.

Kris Hendrix, the Researcher at the RAF Museum, is telling the story about one of the requests to our Archives and some exciting findings.

In his latest blog Julian Hale writes of the first purpose-designed carrier-borne torpedo bomber

This year marks 75th anniversary of one of the most famous raids in RAF history, Operation CHASTISE. Read the story of the legendary Dams Raid here.

On 10 May 2018 The RAF Museum London welcomed RAF veterans and serving personnel to celebrate RAF Day 2018

The famous No 601 Squadron was based twice on RAF Hendon and one of our Gate Guardians is painted in their colours to honour their memory.

Two beautiful Gate Guardians welcoming visitors on our London site have fascinating stories behind.

The RAF Commemorative Anthology, a handmade, limited edition of 1,500 books worldwide.

'Meet the RAF' is a part of our new 'First 100 Years of the RAF' exhibition, opening this summer at our London site.

On Sunday 1 April two amazing celebrations took place at both of the RAF Museum's sites marking the 100 anniversary of the Royal Air Force

How the events of 100 years ago are inspiring the Museum today.

Having recently celebrated St Patrick’s Day we'd like to devote this week's blog to the thousands of doughty Irishmen and women who served in the RAF.