While the latter is renowned for being the fastest commercial aircraft ... embarked on a second life as a military aircraft. The Royal Air Force (RAF) had originally purchased 13 VC10s in 1966 ...

In the United States' arsenal, the F-15E Strike Eagle is one of the fastest fighter jets ever made ... a role it's intended to adopt within the RAF in 2035. "We are working on creating a payload ...

An RAF Typhoon over the Middle East where the pilot had an encounter with two huge Russian military transport jets (Picture: Top Guns: Inside the RAF, Channel 4) Two RAF fighter pilots have ...

The new future strategic tanker aircraft (FSTA) has also been named publicly by the RAF as Voyager. Voyager, a dual role air to air tanker and transport aircraft, will replace the long serving VC ...

It still has one of the fastest climb to altitude ... and went into service with the RAF in 1959. The Yorkshire Air Museum has Lightning F.6 XS903 amongst its aircraft collection, with the F.