Remembrance Poem

1947

1974

Midlands Aircrafts

Tom Palmer Children Book Competition

Tom Palmer is giving away a set of three of his children books, part of the Wings series. They will be signed and personalised to the winner.

Winston Churchill

Women’s Suffrage and Women Pilots

This podcast explains how the pursuit of aviation in the early days was not a wholly male pursuit. Women in Aviation paved the way for gender equality which resulted in women receiving the vote in 1918.

RAF Museum Academic Awards 2020

The RAF Museum's academic awards are designed to inspire and reward high-quality research by up and coming scholars.

Percy the parachuting penguin

In this blog we explore the amazing history behind one of our lucky charms on display at Cosford.

1988

RAF Museum CEO Appointed President of the Museums Association

Previously a board member of the MA, Maggie will begin her presidency on 1 April 2018.

Guy Gibson

1930

Lancaster Lecture – A Precondition of Success: the German air force and combined arms battle, 1916-1917

At 5:30pm on Thursday 16 November 2023, Dr Tony Cowan will look at German attempts to achieve combined arms capabilities in the First World War.

Virtual Lecture: Fighter Command’s Lost Opportunity – Doctrine, Dogma and Fighter Escort

Paul Stoddart considers the RAF's approach to fighter escorts and how it missed a major opportunity that might have shortened the war