Douglas Fairbanks Jr joined the US Navy, served as an exchange officer with RN and took part in Motor Torpedo Boat operations in the English Channel,...
I tried to explain the working of a CFM56 turbofan, and in particularly the compressor on the front end and its likely effect on our feathered...
I expect you found this link, which quotes the (non-)interview with Trenchard http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Charlton.htm
Cally certainly came up trumps for me when I asked for pics for a possible future modelling project!
When my thirteen year-old daughter heard that the airliner went down after apparently hitting a flock of geese, (and before hearing that all the...
John Hannah was just 18 when he was awarded the Victoria Cross. Sadly, his lungs were damaged by the fumes and he was invalided out of the RAF....
A full life indeed. I've kept the attached account since we discussed him on the WW2 forum a while ago:
If he opposed the bombing of Iraqi villages in the 1920s he would have come into conflict with Trenchard et al who were out to prove that the RAF...
In fact, this style was not unique to Britain - most European armies used similar styles for some of their units, especially the cavalry. Here is...
I don't think there is a specific policy that VC recipients must have special gravestone, if they died in peacetime and so do not have a CWGC grave....
The link in the post above is presumably of an Air Mechanic (equivalent to Private) as he has no badges of rank or "wings". It doesn't show the side...
In Britain (where I live) it is virtually illegal to own a gun. It was always difficult, you had to have licences and police checks etc. But then...
This article gives suggestions as to how to survive an airliner crash. What I've always wondered is, how am I supposed to put on a life jacket in...
Its good that heroism is still recognised as such. I heard about this on the BBC Radio 4 6pm news, but I regret to say it wasn't on the BBC1 TV...
A neglected field of study... Note in Kyts post above the "Jeffrey Quad with four wheel drive and twin axle steering" - not a new idea then!...
Some men got a VC for actions like this: William 'Buster' Swan - Telegraph William 'Buster' Swan, who has died aged 88, won an immediate...
They were fairly common in the Royal Navy at the start of the war; known as UP (Unrotating Projectile) launchers. HMS Hood was fitted with three just...
Here is the hangar of the Grahame-White factory, at Hendon. I believe it was moved a few yards when it was restored. It now houses the WW1 collection...
Canopus was slowed down because the Chief Engineer had a breakdown and told the Captain that her engines could not achieve full power. But...
Re: I Think He Flew Mosquitoes ! Mosquitoes were a WW2 type!! As to whether the two references are to the same man, you would need the service...
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