Join us live at TED HQ, aka RAF Coningsby for an action packed 'TED TUESDAY' live show! Everyday is different at RAF Coningsby and as it is home to two frontline combat ready squadrons, it also homes the BBMF and the Typhoon Display Team. RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire (also known as 'Bomber County') is one of two RAF Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) Stations which protect UK airspace. RAF Lossiemouth is the other.

29 SQUADRON
During World War One, 26 of the pilots had achieved 'Ace' Status. Aircraft flown have included the Mosquito, Phantom and Tornado F3. 29 Squadron train RAF combat air pilots on the Typhoon, ready for front-line operations. In 1915, 29 Squadron formed at Gosport and travelled to France as a fighter squadron. Then in 1940 the Squadron began service as a defensive night fighter squadron. Three years later, they began offensive night intruder operations defending RAF heavy bombers. In 1987, the Squadron ecame the first operational squadron to be equipped with the Tornado F3 and in 2003 they were the second RAF squadron to receive the Typhoon.

Since the late 1920s, the squadron marking has been three (red) Xs (XXX). The markings should really be XXIX to resemble 29 in roman numerals, but there is a belief among current squadron personnel that this originated as a "misspelling" of the Roman numeral. Although various versions of the tradition are put forward, the most common explanation is that a mis-understood instruction to ground crew to paint "2 X's in front of the roundel and IX behind it" meaning "X,X,(roundel), and 'IX'. Instead, it was misunderstood to put 'one' X after the roundel. It has stayed ever since.

Lincolnshire is also known as 'Bomber County' because of the amount of Bomber Command Squadrons that were based in the county during the Second World War.

Approximately 125,000 aircrew flew with Bomber Command during World War II (their average age was 22). 73,700 of them became casualties (killed, wounded or shot down and taken prisoner of war), of those 55,500 were killed.

RAF Coningsby opened in 1941, serving as an RAF Bomber Command station until the early 1960s. Coningsby has been a fighter station since the Phantom arrived in the late 1960s, followed by the Tornado and now the Typhoon. In 1976, Coningsby became home to the world-famous RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. The station has also been home to 617 Squadron and a base for the Vulcan Bomber.

Based here today are:
3 (F) Squadron
XI (F) Squadron
12 Squadron
29 Squadron OCU
41 TES
Plus the BBMF and the Typhoon Display Team

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RAF Coningsby
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EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON FGR4
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BBMF (Battle of Britain Memorial Flight)
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TYPHOON DISPLAY TEAM
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3F) Squadron
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12 Squadron
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XI(F) Squadron
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29 OCU
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