In a historic first for the Royal Air Force, an all-female flypast took place over the International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) to commemorate the unveiling of the new Women in War exhibition, according to a Royal Air Force update.
The formation, consisting of an A400M Atlas, a Prefect T1, and a Eurofighter Typhoon, represented the largest-ever RAF flypast conducted solely by female aircrew.
The Women in War exhibition, hosted at the IBCC’s Memorial Spire, features ten steel silhouettes created by the Standing with Giants team—renowned for their D-Day display in Normandy in 2024. The ten women depicted were chosen by the IBCC to symbolise the courage, leadership, and contributions of women across various roles during the Second World War.
The flypast aimed to pay tribute to these pioneers, connecting the contributions of past generations to the present and future of women in defence.
The A400M Atlas, flown by 206 Test & Evaluation Squadron from RAF Brize Norton, was piloted by:
- Squadron Leader Stewart
- Major Williams
- Air Loadmaster Sergeant Thornton
- Flight Test Engineer Squadron Leader Dampier
Squadron Leader Stewart, who previously led an all-female flypast over Wembley for the Lionesses’ Euro Final, highlighted the significance of the event in a news update:
“Today was really important to me because it gave us a chance to honour the work that women have done before us. One of the statues unveiled today was Joan Curran, who invented what we now know as aircraft countermeasures.”
“Being a test pilot on 206 Squadron and working on the future defensive capabilities of the aircraft, it was incredibly special to commemorate and celebrate the pioneering work of women in defence.”
As the Atlas, Prefect T1, and Typhoon soared over the IBCC, attendees witnessed a powerful tribute to women’s evolving role in military aviation. The crews of the Atlas and Prefect later landed at RAF Waddington to meet guests and share in the moment.
Photo by Ronnie Macdonald [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.
I think the largest all male flypast in history was in Germany in 1945.
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How do they know that the A400 is female? It could be a trans…port.
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I guess that puts paid to any chance the amuricans will ever use the A400
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And what does this say? Pathetic stunts for who? Who does this rubbish impress?
Maybe it’s a small but important way to demonstrate to the next generation of young women, who are considering their career options and contemplating joining up and proudly serving their country, that it is possible to achieve great thing in the armed forces? And that the more people who want to enrol and serve the armed forces is surely a good thing…? Just my tuppence…
Your tuppence isn’t worth two pennies. The RAF has already had to give compensation for discrimination against white male candidates. Useless stunts like this do nothing to undo the damage DEI nonsense has done to military recruitment.
Do u not think it puts off the main group that joins the military which is white males constantly promoting every single group other than the main group that has been the one that has won every single war we have been in I think might have a negative effect on them
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Nice to see but this sort of diverse nonsense has been part of the RAFs recruitment downfall over the last few years! The RAF needs to stop promoting separate groups and diversity and start promoting team work, professionalism and career enrichment! But at least it’s to do with promoting the women at war theme, although I’m sure there are a few blokes called “Suzie” who wants to join in, in the name of diversity!
It is a tightrope to balance seeking people from all quarters and not focusing on diversity to tick a box, which ultimately adds zero to our military capabilities. Given recent publicity and illegal activities I would suggest this type of thing is given less prominence (but well done) and more emphasis is placed on the team, which is from all quarters of society.
A subtle but important difference.
Airborne spewing his usual textual diarrhoea again. Glad you fuckwits are going extinct.
Funny how these “manly” men are such pathetic snowflakes that they get offended by stuff that their old Mum wouldn’t bat an eyelid at, or might even applaud.
But poor old “manly” men are born with the shame that they came out of a woman in the first place, how embarrassing! 😂
Go watch some Ukraine war footage of men in trench knife fights or getting their legs blown off in mine fields. Not many ‘brave’ women signing up for that.
The Americans found in the 2003 Iraq invasion that almost 90% of females would become pregnant when their unit was activated for deployment. Who can count on who?
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In this instance given what they are celebrating’-and putting aside any thoughts as to why or indeed if that needs celebrating – I think this particular action was justified.
Hopefully , however, politics will soon turn a corner and recognise the nature of this so called diversity drive and the detrimental impact this has to many areas of society – indeed in particular to the military and we can return to some semblance of sanity where it is recognised different people have different traits (physical, emotional , and intellectual) , and those people are not discriminated against based on some misguided misplaced agenda.
At that point we should have a military that reflects those from society that both want to , and are good enough, to join – and by default that will be as diverse as it needs to be.
In the meantime I suppose we will just have to put up with your trolling ,your childish glee ,and your puerile snide comments whenever Diversity is mentioned here .
This is ,I venture ,a small price to pay for the interesting knowledgeable comments that are oft times proffered here – sometimes even from the demographic you obviously despise so much.
Go away, cheap refuse garbage.
Who exactly do you think is going extinct?
Whites. This racist scum has told me that before.
You’ve never served have you cherub.
Where is the diversity in all women? Perhaps it’s a racial thing, or political.
Had a few beers so please dont judge me hashly but,..
Having all women crew is great but they should celebrate internally right now. At present we are in a crisis of a shockingly underfunded and ill equipped armed forces, with full out European War (poss World) round the corner. FFS and RAf want to big up this.
RAF want to “Kick off” and make sure they get more squadrans and GBAD.
Major Williams? US Airforce attachment perhaps?
Britain copying the Americans in their toxic identity politics games…. it is poison. Please stop elevating select groups by race and gender.
But… why?