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WIN A Spitfire Flight worth £2975!
Flypast, Aeroplane Monthly and Britain at War magazines have teamed up with Spitfires.com to give one lucky reader the chance to win a flight in a Spitfire.
Norwegian Vampire in new Royal Auxiliary Air Force markings
A de Havilland Vampire wearing 502 (Ulster) Squadron markings arrived on September 6, 2024 at Aldergrove Flying Station, Northern Ireland.
The curious tale of how two airshow Strikemasters ended up in an African civil war
In February 2003, two aircraft best-known for flying at British airshows left the UK for ‘film work’ in South Africa — but neither ever arrived there. How did two BAC Strikemasters repeatedly slip through the fingers of customs officials, and end up taking part in one of Africa’s bloodiest civil wars?
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Spitfire MK912 makes it 16 for Biggin Hill
Almost exactly nine years after it was damaged in a forced landing, Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX MK912 (G-BRRA) returned to the skies on July 31 from London’s Biggin Hill Airport, with Dan Griffith at the controls.
Aeroplane October 2024
October 2024 issue of Aeroplane in page-turning format features three heroes of Duxford in a special section commemorating the Cambridgeshire airfield’s centenary as a fighter station
Wildcat accident report
The Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) has released the report on the accident of a Grumman Wildcat at Heveningham Hall, Suffolk, that left the pilot seriously injured.
REVEALED: Electronic Intelligence gathering Chipmunks over Berlin
Cold War Berlin, and the RAF Gatow Station Flight’s Chipmunks are a familiar sight over the city, carrying out photographic ‘spy’ sorties that brought back imagery of the highest value. But sometimes they undertook another, even more clandestine task, one that’s not been publicly documented until now: the gathering of electronic intelligenc
SR-71 Blackbirds in Britain
Bob Archer celebrates the 50th anniversary of the mysterious black SR-71 arriving in the UK
Canadian Lancaster on loan to new museum
The National Air Museum of Canada (NAMC) has loaned Avro Lancaster B.X KB882 to the evolving Base31 museum at Picton, Ontario.