On 19th August 1940, the prototype of B-25 Mitchell twin-engine medium bomber, performed its maiden flight at Mines Field, Los Angeles. The story of the well-known B-25 Mitchell bomber began in the late 1930s, when […]
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry – an aviator that needs no introduction. Who has not heard about ´The Little Prince´ and the author of this book? However, that book was just one among […]
Supermarine Seagull V / Walrus (c/n A2-4, formerly ´A2-4´ of the Royal Australian Navy, then VH-ALB), exhibited at the Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon, London, July 2014. In May of 1921, the new flying […]
The Fairey Swordfish was a biplane torpedo bomber developed in the early 1930s. However, yet during the World War II, the aircraft – with its open cockpit, struts and braces, as well as maximum speed […]
The Boulton Paul Defiant was designed in the mid-1930s, as a response to rapid development of fast bomber aircraft and aerial warfare model based on theories created by General Giulio Douhet. According to Specification F.9/35 […]
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 […]
On the 1st April 1954, a Spitfire Mk. XIX of the No. 81 Squadron RAF performed the last operational sortie of that type of aircraft within the RAF. That final flight was a reconnaissance mission […]
On 15th October 1933, a liquid-cooled, V-12 piston engine designated as PV-12, had run for the very first time. It went into series production approximately three years later and became internationally famed as the Rolls-Royce […]
Death of F/Sgt Ingvar Fredrik Håkansson, Swedish volunteer pilot in the Royal Air Force. Håkansson was born in the United Kingdom, in a mixed family of British mother and Swedish father (who was a navy […]
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