Mr Ingram announced that the RAF's air transport and air refuelling fleets - including the Hercules C130Js currently at Lyneham - will be based at Brize Norton by 2012. Meanwhile, the Tactical ...

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 ...

The Hercules crashed on January 30, elections day in Iraq. Those killed from 47 Squadron, based at RAF Lyneham, were Flight Lieutenant David Stead, 35, Flight Lieutenant Andrew Smith, 25 ...

Three RAF Hercules have toured the UK in a flypast ... for fallen military personnel who were flown into nearby MoD Lyneham by Hercules. Warrant Officer Scott Drinkel was on the lead Hercules ...

Andy Muniandy: The Hercules air-to-air refuelling. Available for over a year RAF Lyneham pioneered a new technique which had never been attempted with a Hercules ...

Lyneham, with nearly 2,500 RAF personnel and 750 civilians, is the base for the RAF's Hercules transport aircraft, which have been used to carry vast amounts of cargo to forces in the Middle East.

The auction was won by David Catlow, a former RAF Hercules pilot, who served in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iraq and Afghanistan. Mr Catlow said he placed his bid "quite late at night after I’d been ...