Saunders-Roe Skeeter AOP.12 (c/n S2/7154, formerly XN348 of the Army Air Corps, UK), exhibited at Hubschraubermuseum Bückeburg (Bückeburg Helicopter Museum), June 2023. History of that small helicopter can be said to begin with Juan de […]
On 2nd June 1910, Charles Rolls made a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel with a Wright aeroplane. Charles Steward Rolls, the British aviation and motoring pioneer, was born on 27th August 1877 in […]
On 26th May 1941, Fairey Swordfish aircraft launched from HMS Ark Royal aircraft carrier hit German battleship Bismarck with two torpedoes, damaging her stern and making the ship unmanoeuvrable. The story of pursuit of one […]
On 12th May 1940, Boulton Paul Defiant fighter performed its first operational sortie. On that day, six aircraft of that type, together with six Spitfires, executed a combat patrol over the English Channel and coastal […]
On 5th May 1953, Christopher Draper – commonly known as the Mad Major – performed an incredible stunt by flying under fifteen (out of eighteen planned) bridges on the river Thames, located within the greater […]
In the second half of April 2023, coastal waters of Norway turned into a simulated battleground between helicopters and superfast vessels. That´s because of a new joint military exercise codenamed ´Tamber Shield 2023´, held in […]
On 10th March 1925, the British military reconnaissance flying boat Supermarine Southampton performed its first flight. In the mid-1920s, the British authorities were hopelessly looking for new flying boats for military service. At that time, […]
On 3rd March 1912, Avro 500 military utility biplane designed by A.V. Roe, performed its maiden flight. Alliott Verdon Roe, the British aircraft manufacturer and pioneer pilot, started his aviation career in the early 1900s, […]
On 17th February 1864, in Vauxhall (London), Hilda Beatrice Hewlett, the British aviation pioneer and entrepreneur, was born. Hilda´s father, G. W. Herbert, was a vicar of Church of England and she had eight siblings. […]
On 23rd January 2023, The Blades Aerobatic Display Team officially announced that, by decision of the team’s parent company 2Excell Aviation, 2022 was regrettably the last full season for the group. The Blades team have […]
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