Although the Italian Air Corps (Corpo Aereo Italiano) faced heavy losses when they faced RAF fighters during their ... attacked the Italian Fiat CR.42 biplanes and a large dogfight developed.

Philip Makanna For the cover of the premier issue of Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine, published in April 1986, we chose a biplane, a configuration that aircraft designers had all but abandoned by ...

A historical airbase was once home to the RAF as Britain armed itself against ‘growing threats’ in the late 1930s. In 1935 the Air Ministry obtained 100 acres of farmland and RAF Cranfield was ...

Back then, the Fleet Air Arm was not a priority for the RAF, and the FAA had the unenviable distinction of being one of the few air forces still equipped with biplanes at the start of WWII. Today the ...