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RAF helicopter crews have been working to rescue people from flooded homes and swollen rivers in the worst-affected areas of Cumbria. This footage shows one crew from RAF Chivenor having to abandon the evacuation of one home...
Jenny Uglow follows the careers of five artists whose lives were defined by the first world war The friendships made in early youth, writes David Boyd Haycock, are more open and intense than any others. In the heady student...
An RAF Sea King was used to rescue residents in Cockermouth More than 500 people across Cumbria are spending the night in emergency shelters after "unprecedented" rainfall sparked devastating floods. Cockermouth and Keswick...
Sher Mohammed Akhundzada the former governor of Afghanistan's Helmand province has revealed he turned thousands of his followers over to the Taliban after he was sacked from the job under pressure from British officials.
The Armed Forces have spent the equivalent of four months filming stunts for Top Gear. Cue general outrage. “Are these stunts a good use of manpower?” asks Lib Dem defence spokesman Willie Rennie. Probably not. But nobody is...
Published Date: 21 November 2009 THE largest attack submarine in the Royal Navy arrived at its base in Scotland yesterday. Two tugs helped to manoeuvre the "hunter-killer" submarine, Astute, into place at custom-built floating...
Published Date: 20 November 2009 LOCAL MPs and civic chiefs are drawing up battle lines for the fight to ensure that RAF Marham does not face closure as part of rumoured air force cuts. North West Norfolk MP Henry Bellingham...
A STUDY carried out for the US Navy by Calspan will provide clues to the effect of using full-flight hexapod simulators rather than in-flight training on pilots' ability to recover from in-flight upsets. The USN is taking great...
Capt Darryl "Spike" Long, aviation training systems programme manager for the US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), has no doubt about the vector the service's simulator technology needs to take. Rockwell Collins, the market...
Realistic flight training experience of high g -forces is vital preparation to cope with emergencies - and that is what the US National Aerospace Training and Research Centre gave pilots in its Phoenix simulator during last...
