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Published: 6:00 AM May 1, 2021    Group Captain Beck, the station commander of RAF Marham, speaks to contractors at work on demolishing the hangar - Credit: SAC Craig Williams RAF A historic aircraft hangar has been demolished as work continues to modernise Norfolk's main RAF base. Number 1 Hangar at RAF Marham was built in the late 1930s and housed heavy bombers during the Second World War. The structure, which most recently housed the RAF's Tornado jets, has now been demolished to make way for new accommodation for the F-35 Lightning stealth bomber. Bricks from the demolition of the Hanga...

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Margaret was already a fixture on London’s social and arts scene when she began secretly seeing photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1958. The announcement of their engagement in February 1960 caught many by surprise. They were married on May 6, 1960, in the first royal wedding to be televised. (Armstrong-Jones was created earl of Snowdon in 1961.) The marriage was at first successful, and they had two children: David, Viscount Linley, born in 1961, and Lady Sarah, born in 1964. By the 1970s, however, the couple had grown apart. Both of the Snowdons engaged ...

Industry sources said the sustained increase in the price of aviation fuel was worsened by the high exchange rate. As of yesterday, the dollar was exchanged for between N490 and N495 in the parallel market. Some operators link the price hike to the significant rise in airfares with a one-way Lagos-Abuja ticket reaching N120,000 last week. There are even fears of fuel contamination in some quarters which experts say could threaten flight safety. Engr. Femi Adeniji of Tropical Arctic Logistics, a helicopter operator who confirmed the current price said any jet fuel cheaper than N270 could have ...

Abandoned airplanes in a Nigerian airport By passenger traffic or flight movements, Nigeria ranks nowhere near the world’s top aviation countries. But the country has an odd record in the number of unserviceable and dead airplanes competing for space with serviceable ones at airports nationwide. WOLE OYEBADE examines why the mortality rate for airplanes is high without consideration for revenue-earning secondary value. However, stakeholders are unanimous that a complement of realistic business models, better efficiency in maintenance culture, after-service storage programmes, and developmen...

Travelers from Europe, Latin America and Middle East nations are barred for two weeks.