RAF Driffield

Some great stories from the Cold War days at RAF Driffield from Dave O'Connell. Dave kindly gave me permission to re-post here, as his...

Adapted from an article originally written by Phillip Rhodes and published in the Driffield Times newspaper on August 16, 2000.   For...

As mentioned in the book Strong Foundations: Driffield's Aerodrome from 1917 to 2000 by Geoff Simmons and Barry Abraham, August 1954 ‘had...

Welshman Chris Pickering, now resident in France, is hoping to find out more about an aircrash close to RAF Driffield in which his late...

I wrote this article for our local parish magazine, The Driffield Leader. Residents of the Capital of the Wolds may have already seen...

Netflights.com are currently compiling a website featuring a guide to UK airfields, and their latest addition is a guide to our very own...

I recently acquired a copy of Aviation News from 1973, featuring a history of RAF Driffield by local author Arthur Pearcy. Ironically,...

On a recent walk through Driffield Cemetery, among the CWGC headstones, one in particular stood out to me - and the young man...

If you’ve passed through Carnaby lately on the way from Driffield to Bridlington or vice versa, you may well have noticed a striking new...

These photos (and report from the Driffield Times in 1961!) may stir some memories in people who were at RAF Driffield in the rock n’...

By Damian Smyth At the beginning of the 1914-1918 war military air activity was rare; indeed, the aeroplane was still very much a...