RAF Museum Blog Posts

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.

Answers for the most common questions regarding the heraldic badges used by the Royal Air Force.

Vote for the Royal Air Force Museum

Did the opinions of Royal Flying Corps Aircrew have any influence over the development of technology and tactics used in aerial reconnaissance?

In his latest blog for the Museum, Julian Hale explores the fighter aircraft of Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Volunteer George Mason looks at the forgotten life of one of the founders of the Royal Air Force

The Scilly Isles were an important base for flying boats patrolling the seas off south west Britain during the First World War