RAeS BWC October 2022 Lecture

This month's BWC branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society's Lecture will be: Memoirs of the Moors - Phixing Phantoms and Breaking Buccaneers

The Boeing Chinook

The Chinook is an iconic helicopter which has served the RAF for over 40 years.

The RAF and China: A Forgotten Alliance. Part 1

The Royal Air Force has a connection with China, the world's most populated country as well as its fourth biggest country.

For Valour: Acting Flight Lieutenant Roderick Alastair Brook Learoyd

Bomber Command had switched to night raids but was still setting precision targets, accuracy for which required flying at near-suicidally low altitude

Inter-War

Peter Kosogorin’s Uniform – one of 100 reasons to visit the RAF Museum

You can now see the flight suit worn by the BAE Systems’s Test Pilot Peter ‘Kos’ Kosogorin throughout his test-flights of the F-35 Lightning aircraft. 

It is now on display in our new exhibition ‘RAF: First to the Future’ at our London site. This exhibition gathers together objects that tell the stories of the technologies used by the RAF during its 100 years of history while looking, at the same time, at the technologies the RAF will soon use. 

The F-35 Lighting Jet is undoubtedly one of the most advanced and innovative aircraft ever designed, and is already seen as by many in the RAF as ‘a game-changing technology ‘.

If, after watching this video, you would like to learn more about this pioneering aircraft please visit our new exhibition ‘RAF: First to the Future’ to discover more.

Just one of 100 reasons to visit the RAF Museum

What’s going on?

What's going on at the RAF Museum London? See the listed events here.

First World War

For Valour: Acting Flight Sergeant Arthur Louis Aaron

On the night of 12th August, 1943, Flight Sergeant Aaron was captain and pilot of a Stirling aircraft detailed to attack Turin.

Pioneering Years

Winners of RAF Museum Academic Awards Announced

Winners of RAF Museum PhD Bursary, MA and BA Prizes Announced

Virtual Lecture – Defining the ‘Authentic Hero’: the Darker Side of First World War Fighter Aces

At 6.00pm on Thursday 22 June 2023, Michael Terry will test the wholesome image of early fighter pilots.

1941

Moving the Mosquito

Over the last year and a half some fifty individual aircraft moves have happened at our London and Cosford sites. Here we focus on one.

Citizen Airman: Ray Holmes – Part One: VE Day

Citizen Airman: Flight Lieutenant Ray Holmes RAFVR - Part One: VE Day