A £15 million state-of-the-art Aviation Academy is set to open at RAF Syerston in Nottinghamshire in 2019 in a joint venture between the RAF Air Cadets and Aviation Skills Partnership. The Syerston Academy will be named after WW2 Victoria Cross hero Arthur Aaron – a former RAF Air Cadet and RAF ...
A Royal Air Force A400M Atlas is being put through its paces in the United States as part of Exercise Mobility Guardian. The airlift aircraft has transported military vehicles, delivered aid relief and flown aeromedical evacuation sorties as part of an intensive series of exercise scenarios designed to improve interoperability between ...
Personnel from the RAF Wittering-based 5131 Bomb Disposal Squadron have conducted a joint training exercise alongside counterparts from the Romanian Army. The Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) detachment from RAF Wittering is supporting the 135 Expeditionary Air Wing currently deployed at Mihail Kogalniceanu airbase off the Black Sea coast of Romania. The officer ...
An RAF Aeromedical Evacuation team has deployed on exercise with A400M Atlas for the first time. The Mobility Guardian exercise, designed to prepare personnel for medical evacuations, is being held in the US. In the largest exercise of its kind, medics from Tactical Medical Wing (TMW) together with three RAF Reserve ...