The Spitfire airplane will be forever linked with the Battle of Britain, although its active service life spanned the Second World War. When the Supermarine Spitfire factory in Southampton was bombed in September 1940, it was imperative that the enormous factory at Castle Bromwich should be immediately brought into production. With this dispersal ...
The second in a six volume illustrated history of aviation. This covers the period from 1918 to 1939 and features rare archival and new detailed photographs of museum aircraft. This era of was one of military advances, daredevils, and record breakers.
Few RAF pilots flew operationally from the beginning to the end of the Second World War. Fewer still can claim to have experienced action from Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain, El Alamein and the D-Day landings, to bomber escort duty in the closing days of the war in Europe. Peter Ayerst is one such man and his tale is, as yet, untold. Peter ...
Few RAF pilots flew operationally from the beginning to the end of the Second World War. Fewer still can claim to have experienced action from Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain, El Alamein and the D-Day landings, to bomber escort duty in the closing days of the war in Europe. Peter Ayerst is one such man and his tale is, as yet, untold. Peter ...
The story of the author's solo flight from England to Cape Town in a single-engined Percival Mew Gull in 1939, a distance of 12,754 miles over desert, sea and jungle. His flight established several solo records which still stand in 1998.
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