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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...
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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Saturday, 31 May 2014

Britain's Greatest Pilot: The Story of Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown

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  I rarely do posts previewing upcoming interesting programmes or listing classic films on TV these days, partly because I no longer follow ...
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Saturday, 24 May 2014

Remembering a Great War hero: Flight Sgt Thomas Mottershead VC

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Regular readers of this blog will know that among the many aspects of socio-cultural history that interest me World War I looms large - and ...
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Tuesday, 10 December 2013

Flying in the slipstream of Lady Mary Heath

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Tracey Curtis-Taylor: Meet the daredevil recreating Lady Mary Heath's historic 1920s flight I remember first reading about this lady...
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Monday, 27 May 2013

Forgotten aviation pioneer’s aircraft to take to the air once more

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source Forgotten aviation pioneer’s aircraft to take to the air once more History can be a fickle thing at times, as these two recent...
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Sunday, 17 June 2012

British World War Two propaganda artworks released on Wikipædia

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source British World War Two propaganda artworks released on Wikipædia Some excellent news now for those of us interested in the be...
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Tuesday, 24 April 2012

Writers in the sky

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Whatever happened to skywriters - those skilled aviators for whom the sky was a bl...
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Sunday, 11 March 2012

Women pilots celebrate first English Channel flight

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Women pilots celebrate first English Channel flight Oddly enough I was thinking just the other day, after reading several blogs celebrat...
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Wednesday, 29 February 2012

The self-proclaimed last barnstormer in the United States

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Self-proclaimed last barnstormer in the United States flies Imperial County skies Last year I blogged about a pair of father and son pi...
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Friday, 16 December 2011

Books, ties and heroes

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I'm on a bit of a roll with the old charity shop finds this week, it seems.  Went back in to town yesterday and had a look around the tw...
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Thursday, 15 September 2011

Documentary showcases woman pilots of the 1920s

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Documentary showcases woman pilots of the 1920s Proving that anything men can do women can do equally as well, if not better, this secon...
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Monday, 18 April 2011

WWII veterans take flight in vintage biplane

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WWII veterans take flight in vintage biplane  I chanced upon this story from across the Pond last week and as well as involving a classi...
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Tuesday, 1 June 2010

Pensioner is Britain's oldest stunt pilot at 87

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Pensioner is Britain's oldest stunt pilot at 87 A truly heart-warming article here about a man still enthusiastically enjoying his wo...