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 ...

Tories warned that the closure may make it impossible for the RAF to carry out an operation like the recent war in Iraq, when Lyneham was the base for hundreds of flights to the Gulf. And the ...

The land for the proposed development, between Chippenham and Swindon, was previously underdeveloped because it had provided the flight path and associated landing lights for an RAF Lyneham runway ...

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 ...

Speculation that the Royal Air Force base at Brize Norton, Oxfordshire -- used for the military and civilian flights to the Falkland ... and two other bases -- Lyneham in Wiltshire and Saint ...

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