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Avro 698 landing at Woodford after it's first flight. 30th August 1952.

Credit to Ian Proctor / Mercury Press

A Handley Page HP.80 Victor B.1aircraft is prepared for flying. This is probably at 232 Operational Conversion Unit, RAF Gaydon in late 1957 or early 1958.

Credit to IWM.

Vickers Valiant B(K).1 aircraft of No 49 Squadron undergoing preparations for a flight at its base of RAF Wittering, Cambridgeshire. Credit IWM.

Credit to David A. Ingham

15 May 1957. ‘Operation Grapple’.

Vickers Valiant B.1 XD818, piloted by Kenneth Hubbard, released the first British air-drop hydrogen bomb over Malden Island and from 39,000 ft.

I thought they looked quite menacing here

57 Squadron, RAF Tengah.

A good view of its transportation dolly.

55 Squadron.