RAF Museum Blog Posts

The Sopwith series of blogs concludes with an examination of the 7F.1 Snipe and the Dragon.

Julian Hale continues his series of blogs on Sopwith aircraft focusing on the Camel and Dolphin

How the five man crew of a Large America flying boat worked together on patrols over the sea during the First World War.

Curator Andy Simpson writes of a recent medal acquisition.

Clare Carr relates the story of a Falklands Conflict survivor

Captain Leefe Robinson and the Destruction of Schütte-Lanz SL11, 3 September 1916

This blog will examine four of Sopwith’s major First World War designs. With the publication of a second blog, the reader will be able to trace the continu

How Britain developed and built a force of long range flying boats during the First World War.

Between 29 April and 8 May 1945 Allied bomber aircraft averted a humanitarian catastrophe by delivering food to starving people in Holland.

Clare Carr tells the story of a very unassuming Veteran who after being awarded the DFC went on to Oscar success.

In his latest blog Julian Hale, the Museum's Cross & Cockade Curator, looks at the evolution of a very prolific aviation company.

A portrait of raconteur and bon vivant ‘Paddy’ Barthropp brings us to tell the story of this celebrated pilot and commander.

Ewen Cameron, Curator at the the Museum's Reserve Collection tells of a recent rediscovery

Between 1917 and 1918 British flying boats based in the Orkney and Shetland Islands hunted U-Boats preying on merchant shipping.

With the arrival of Halloween it falls upon me to make the obligatory tenuous link between the festivities and the RAF.