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A Tiger Moth has found a new home at an airfield where dozens of the aeroplanes were used to train pilots during World War ...
Introduced in 1937, it was the last RAF biplane fighter and the first fighter to feature an enclosed cockpit. Unfortunately, it was already outdated by the time it took to the skies. Despite this ...
A retired British Royal Air Force Wing Commander died when he lost control of his replica First World War biplane and plummeted ... who is also ex-RAF and had flown the plane a number of times ...
These are the planes that were involved in aerial combat at every stage of the RAF's story, from the biplanes used in the early days of dogfighting in World War I to the beautiful Spitfire of the ...
It was meant to be a ‘modest little project’ to keep Squadron Leader Howell Davies occupied when he retired from the RAF. Over the next 18 years, building a 1930s biplane in the same way ...
A longtime resident of Lawrence, Kansas, Hannon shattered his shoulder in a fall earlier this year. But he moved to Tulsa and with his daughter’s help, he has bounced back stron ...
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 ...
In April 1933, RAF squadron leader Douglas Douglas-Hamilton ... Lord Clydesdale flew a modified Westland PV-3 biplane accompanied by Colonel Stewart Blacker. Following them in a Westland PV ...
A veteran RAF pilot who died after the biplane he was flying crashed in Colorado has been described by a friend as a "very dedicated family man". Brian North, 72, from Parker, south of Denver ...