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Showing posts with label aeroplane. Show all posts
Tuesday, 19 March 2024

Britain’s youngest-ever female pilot set to fly WW1 Sopwith 1½ Strutter

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Britain’s youngest-ever female pilot set to fly WW1 Sopwith 1½ Strutter Huzzah!  We've finally made it in to 2024 (just!) with this late...
Friday, 15 March 2024

Ukraine finds British WW2 Hurricane planes outside Kyiv

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Ukraine finds British WW2 Hurricane planes outside Kyiv Back to Hawker Hurricanes again for this next story, featuring the extraordinary rec...
Wednesday, 28 February 2024

Jersey veteran pilot flies WW2 plane for 101st birthday present

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Jersey veteran pilot flies WW2 plane for 101st birthday present A heart-warming story from April 2023 now, featuring remarkable WWII RAF vet...
Friday, 24 March 2023

Bessie Coleman, pioneering pilot, now has her own Barbie

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Bessie Coleman, pioneering pilot, now has her own Barbie Well, this is something I never thought I'd be blogging about.  Not that I'...
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Wednesday, 23 September 2020

Salisbury Spitfire memorial to honour secret workforce

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Salisbury Spitfire memorial to honour secret workforce Another favourite subject of mine now; an aircraft from a different war, which ha...
Friday, 18 September 2020

My heroes: Leutnant Werner Voss (German Air Service) 1897-1917

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For this post I thought I would do something a bit different and publish a little essay I first wrote nearly 17 years ago, on the 23rd Novem...
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Monday, 24 August 2020

Footage shows 'forgotten' aerodrome from before WW2

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Vintage aircraft footage of 'forgotten' pre-war aerodrome Here we have another interesting article both in and of itself and a...
Thursday, 7 May 2020

Podcasts reflect Amy Johnson's solo flight to Australia

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Podcasts reflect Amy Johnson's solo flight to Australia Another podcast to add to the list of those I posted about a month ago and...
Saturday, 27 August 2016

Back In The Cockpit - With Robots, Czechs & Secret Codes

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Well, hullo there! Dear me, has it really been three months since my last post?  I suppose there's no getting away from the fact that ...
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Saturday, 5 March 2016

Spitfire flight over Southampton marks 80th anniversary

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Spitfire flight over Southampton marks 80th anniversary Can it really have been five years since I last wrote about the anniversary ...
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Saturday, 13 February 2016

Tracey Curtis-Taylor finishes UK to Australia biplane flight

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"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana" (as the late, great Sir Terry Wogan once said) and once again time has indee...
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Saturday, 24 October 2015

Constance Leathart: The forgotten 'aviatrix' of WW2

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source Constance Leathart: The forgotten 'aviatrix' of WW2 This month's post focuses on the the fascinating B.B.C. article...
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Sunday, 9 November 2014

Red Baron's WW1 fighter recreated

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Red Baron's WW1 fighter recreated With the the centenary of the First World War now well underway and the first Remembrance Sunday o...
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Sunday, 17 August 2014

Historic Lancasters' tandem flight takes place in Lincolnshire

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Historic Lancasters' tandem flight takes place in Lincolnshire Well here I am again, having survived a second week at the Temple of ...
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Wednesday, 23 July 2014

Amelia Earhart mystery – 1937 photograph could be clue to her fate

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source Amelia Earhart mystery – 1937 photograph could be clue to her fate  Back in June of 2013 I blogged about the news of the lates...
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