The Royal Air Force scrambled RAF Quick Reaction Alert Typhoon fighter aircraft on Thursday, with a “sonic boom” heard over Norfolk as the jets reached supersonic speeds. A pilot on flight ...

The Typhoon had been scrambled from an RAF base in Lincolnshire to intercept ... Under UK aviation law, all supersonic ...

Workers at a British fighter jet factory have warned that production has “essentially stopped” amid fears that the Royal Air ...

Equipped with Captor-M radar, the Typhoon excels in multi-target tracking and air combat acquisition. Its EJ200 engines allow supersonic cruise without afterburners, and HOTAS controls reduce ...

This incident is now being handled under the control of civilian authorities.” The RAF said the Typhoon had been authorised to fly at supersonic speed for operational reasons.

Two RAF Typhoon jets rushed to intercept Air India flight AC129, which had been due to land at Heathrow at 12.05pm. The flight was forced into a holding pattern The flight, from Mumbai ...

The Typhoons reached supersonic speeds as they raced ... A spokesman for the RAF said: “We can confirm that RAF Quick Reaction Alert Typhoon fighter aircraft from RAF Coningsby were launched ...

The RAF says Typhoon jets based at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire ... "Any inconvenience or alarm caused to the public by an inadvertent supersonic flight is regretted." There are many reasons ...

The Royal Air Force scrambled RAF Quick Reaction Alert Typhoon fighter aircraft on Thursday, with a “sonic boom” heard over Norfolk as the jets reached supersonic speeds. A pilot on flight AIC129 from ...

Typhoon jets from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire sped to the Air India flight after a bomb was reported on board [PA Media] Royal Air Force fighters were scrambled to intercept a civilian airliner ...