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Westland Lysander Mk III

5 March 2024 Milan Doležal

Westland Lysander Mk III (c/n 1185, formerly R9125 – LX-N and JR-M – of the Royal Air Force), on display at the Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon, London, July 2014. In 1934, the British […]

On 3rd March 1912, Avro 500 military utility biplane designed by A.V. Roe, performed its maiden flight. The aircraft was assessed as perfectly designed and having exceptional flight characteristics, apart from its top speed and […]

Hawker Siddeley (Blackburn) Buccaneer S.2B

20 February 2024 Milan Doležal

Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S.2B (c/n B3-14-67, formerly XV865 of the Royal Navy), on display at Imperial War Museum Duxford, June 2014. In June of 1952, the British Admiralty issued specification of a new naval aircraft, […]

Percival Proctor Mk III

13 February 2024 Milan Doležal

Percival Proctor Mk III (c/n H.536, formerly LZ766 of the Royal Air Force and then G-ALCK), on display with Imperial War Museum Duxford, June 2014. In November of 1935, Vega Gull four-seat touring aircraft performed […]

Hawker Nimrod II

23 January 2024 Milan Doležal

Hawker Nimrod II (c/n 41H-59890, formerly K3661 of the Fleet Air Arm), exhibited at Hangar 2 of the Imperial War Museum Duxford, June 2014. In the middle of 1920s, the Air Ministry began to look […]

De Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide

12 December 2023 Jacek Domański

De Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide (c/n 6853, D-IKFG, formerly ´NR777´ of the Royal Air Force and ´D-7´ of the Belgian Air Force), flying display at Medieval Mini Tiger Meet 2023, Neuburg a.d. Donau, July 2023. […]

Heinkel He 162 A-2 Volksjäger

28 November 2023 Milan Doležal

Heinkel He 162 A-2 Volksjäger (c/n 120227, formerly VN679 of the RAF), exhibited at the Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon, London, July 2018. By early 1944, the German aviation authorities slowly began realising that […]

3 November 1915 – the first British take-off of an aircraft with conventional landing gear from a ship

2 November 2023 Jacek Domański

On 3rd November 1915, Flt. Lt. H.F. Towler RNAS, took-off in a Bristol Scout C biplane from the deck of HMS Vindex. It was the first taking-off of a wheeled undercarriage aircraft from a ship […]

Saunders-Roe Skeeter AOP.12

4 July 2023 Jacek Domański

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 […]

2 June 1910 – Charles Rolls double crosses the English Channel in a non-stop flight

1 June 2023 Jacek Domański

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 […]