The role a factory played in Britain's victory in World War Two has been honoured on the 100th anniversary of its opening.

The last surviving British member of the Dambusters raid has flown over the Derwent Valley in a Lancaster bomber. Squadron Leader George "Johnny" Johnson, 96, was meant to fly over on Wednesday to ...

Two glass marbles that were used to help design the RAF's "bouncing bombs" have sold for £15,200 after a bidding war.

A LANCASTER bomber swooped over a Peak District reservoir yesterday to mark the 65th anniversary of the Dambusters raid. The Lancaster - similar to the one used by the RAF's 617 Squadron to bomb ...

The Lancaster Bomber carried out daring missions, including the audacious Dambusters raids, on Germany during World War Two. It had a crew of seven from the pilot to the gunners. Everyone had to ...

The bomber was also due to attend the Duxford Battle of Britain Airshow in Cambridgeshire which has been on this weekend.

There is no more famous aeroplane than the Lancaster bomber. Famed for the Dambusters raids in 1943, and still a cherished ...

they were treated to two sights above them with a flypast by a legendary Lancaster bomber on Saturday and a Dakota yesterday, courtesy of the Battle Of Britain Memorial Flight. The Dambuster raids ...

Nineteen Lancaster bombers flew fast and ... Mr Munro agrees the type of flying the Dambusters did was unlike anything bomber pilots do today - or did in 1943 - saying most flying is done at ...

A special commemorative service has taken place to mark the 80th anniversary of the crash of a Lancaster bomber off the Suffolk coast during the Second World War, which resulted in the deaths of ...

The cash to join the crew of seven others will be put towards the £380,000 cost of the trip in what is considered to be the most famous Allied bomber of the Second World War. The Avro Lancaster ...

More than 4,000 Lancaster bombers were built at the Avro factory at Woodford Aerodrome in Stockport. The planes were used in the 617 Squadron Dambuster raids on dams in Germany's Ruhr valley.