Call me a spoilsport, but permission is quite a good thing to get if you're going to take 300 tons of metal at 300 mph along a runway with a lot of...
Here is an article on Gerhard Schopfel, who shot Lee down. In fact he shot down four Hurricanes in about two minutes. His list of 52 victories...
Its good that he got out there though. He must feel a lot better about himself and have regained any respect from his men that he lost. In...
Missed all the fun! Normally I'm still up at 1 a.m., usually on this site, or at least in the process of going to bed, but last night I was in bed...
How about this senior airline pilot who did a wheels-up pass at 80 feet in a new 777? With the chairman of Cathay Pacific on board! :nono:...
Another one of the Few has gone West. RIP
Statue to Keith Park in Trafalgar Square?? There's a campaign to get a statue of Sir Keith Park on the vacant plinth of Trafalgar Square City...
Thanks, this makes it even clearer. Looks like the observer's seat was further forward than I always imagined, under the fixed part of the canopy,...
Hi Kyt The list in the link you give for Hartmann's victories is more detailed as to his later victories than the list in the book (the authors were...
I’m currently reading “The Blond Knight of Germany” the biography of Erich Hartmann, and so the air war on the Eastern Front and the achievements of...
Oh good, I wasn't dreaming this then
I 've just been reading this. Do the links to the Telegraph and other papers last indefinitely or are they withdrawn? I wouldn't want to lose this...
Looks like lots and lots of SMLEs. The Afghans have acquired a lot of weaponry over the years. Maybe they are concerned about how to dispose of it in...
Sounds like a great character, and one of the last of a dying breed of Anglo-Indian gentleman. No doubt some will think of the passing of his kind...
This piece of news finally made it into the Daily Telegraph: The surviving men and women from the Air Transport Auxiliary of the Second World War...
If it wasn't Medway Queen it could have been Waverley - which was eventually sunk by a Stuka after several trips; the present Waverley is an exact...
It'd be great if it really is the Amber hoard. But why didn't the Luftwaffe signaller go looking for it if he had the co-ordinates? How close did...
Short-lived? I would have thought 18 months was not bad for a British merchant ship launched in 1940. Nice model though (speaking as a...
Did any of you in the UK see the Channel 4 documentary on the Kamikaze missions this evening? If not, worth finding it on any of the playback...
Great News! Mixed feelings about a reward being involved, but the Police are implying that it won't go to the perpetrator. Hope they are kept...
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