If you ask most aviation geeks about the de Havilland Comet, they're bound to conjure images of hideous crashes, explosive decompression, and badly designed windows which led to stress fractures that ...

DEFENCE orders worth #4000m, including a #2000m contract to replace the RAF's 30-year-old fleet of Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft, are expected to create and sustain 5000 jobs, more than 700 of them ...

Volunteers behind the preservation of a historic Nimrod aircraft hope it can be flown out of Coventry Airport when it leaves the West Midlands after 15 years. Nimrod Preservation Group XV232 is ...

All Nimrod aircraft that have not had a vital safety modification are to be grounded by the Ministry of Defence, the BBC has learned. The Nimrods, all based overseas, will be withdrawn on 31 March in ...

A SECOND new generation Nimrod aircraft has taken to the sky as part of BAE System's é1bn-plus redevelopment contract. The flight from Woodford, near to Stockport, up to Warton, Lancashire, came just ...

At least 10 pilots and crew have quit their posts at RAF Kinloss in the last decade because of safety concerns over the ageing Nimrod fleet, it is claimed. Aviation writer David Morgan said he was ...

Industry and military officials have received fresh criticism over the 2006 loss of a Royal Air Force Nimrod MR2 surveillance aircraft and 14 lives … Industry and military officials have received ...

BAE Systems has confirmed long-held plans to close its Woodford manufacturing site in Cheshire for the Nimrod MRA4 surveillance aircraft, with its announcement coming just days after the first flight ...

A Nimrod aircraft and a helicopter came within 200ft of colliding at RAF Kinloss, it has emerged. An official report into the incident last October gave it a category A rating - meaning there was a ...