Tag: RAF Brize Norton

• Friday, September 20th 2013 - 19:57 UTC

  Falklands’ ‘friendly VC10’ retires from RAF service after 47 years

  

  After 47 years of service for the Royal Air Force, the VC10 took to the skies on Friday 20 September 2013 for its final Air-to-Air refuelling operational sortie. The aircraft will retire on 25 September 2013.

• Wednesday, July 10th 2013 - 17:44 UTC

  Falklands: multi-disciplinary plan to help tackle veterans’ trauma

  

  Archaeologists, historians, former service personnel and mental health professionals are meeting in London to discuss a plan to use archaeology to tackle war trauma. The plan is the idea of University of Glasgow academic Dr Tony Pollard and is centred on the Falkland Islands conflict.

• Monday, July 9th 2012 - 05:23 UTC

  The illustrious VC-10, crucial for the Falklands retires from service in early 2013

  

  The illustrious VC-10, flown by 101 Squadron based at RAF Brize Norton, made its final air show appearance at the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) before it retires from Service early in 2013.

• Friday, June 8th 2012 - 20:59 UTC

  Guernsey Bailiff, guest of the Falklands during Liberation commemoration

  

  The Island of Guernsey's Bailiff is to visit the Falkland Islands to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the end of the conflict and the Islands' liberation.

• Wednesday, March 21st 2012 - 21:16 UTC

  Prince William ends routine tour in Falklands and is back in UK with Kate

  

  Britain's Prince William was reunited with his wife on Wednesday after returning home from a tour of duty. The future king arrived at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on the morning after leaving on February 1 for a tour with his Search and Rescue squadron in the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, February 3rd 2012 - 06:16 UTC

  UK warns Argentina on cutting off the air link of Falklands with South America

  

  Britain warned Argentina against cutting off an air link to the Falklands as part of an economic blockade of the Islands, reports the Evening Standard. Buenos Aires is threatening to stop a weekly flight from Punta Arenas in Chile to Port Stanley by refusing permission for it to use Argentine airspace.

• Thursday, February 2nd 2012 - 05:13 UTC

  Cocker spaniel puppy will keep Catherine company while William is in Falklands

  

  Prince William's wife Kate will not be on her own during her husband's tour of duty in the Falkland Islands: the couple have a new puppy, St James's Palace said Wednesday.

• Wednesday, February 1st 2012 - 16:05 UTC

  Prince William leaves for the Falklands Wednesday night from Brize Norton

  

  The British government confirmed that Prince William begins this Wednesday his six week deployment in the disputed Falkland Islands as a helicopter pilot when he flies out from RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire tonight.

• Friday, September 2nd 2011 - 20:30 UTC

  Air Titan Boeing 767 takes over Falklands-Brize Norton airbridge contract

  

  Air Titan is to take up the airbridge flight as from this weekend as Air Seychelles makes its last journey from Brize Norton to the Falkland Islands under the current contract with the Ministry of Defence.

• Tuesday, July 5th 2011 - 00:15 UTC

  Brize Norton becomes the new home for the RAF Hercules Force

  

  As of this month RAF Lyneham's Hercules fleet has a new base at RAF Brize Norton which is becoming critically important as an RAF logistics support hub including the air bridge with the Falkland Islands.