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By JAMES KIGHTLY 29th January 2024

… R18/24, the amphibian requirement being quietly forgotten. The result was ordered off the drawing board, … improved, three-Armstrong Siddeley Jaguarengined torpedo bomber version named the Nanok (meaning polar bear) with a … some of the Royal Navy’s traditional role for the RAF. Most RAF Southamptons were replaced in 1936 after the type …

By Bill Turnill 6th June 2022

… Vickers Valiant: first of the ‘V-bombers’, and the one now most forgotten, despite how it paved the way for those that … a tour as a Canberra captain, and then the carrot of a ‘V-bomber’ captaincy. The Canberra possibility after just a year …

By Jonathan Garraway and Andrew Thomas 31st July 2023

… overlooked use of the Spitfire by the US military during World War Two. By the summer of 1940 Britain stood alone … down near Rye, East Sussex. The ‘Eagles’ Soon afterwards most American RAF pilots were formed into a single squadron, … Montecorvino, just south of Salerno, tasked with flying bomber escorts and close support of the ground forces.  As a …

By Tony Harmsworth 7th April 2022

… sortie on de Havilland’s glorious twin-engine fighter-bomber, but he had plenty of previous experience on the … identify exactly where we were. It was a good bit of kit. Most of the time we were operating at very low level, … clash of arms and somehow managed to thwart others who had forgotten, wilfully or otherwise, the lessons to be learned …

By Tony Harmsworth 10th May 2023

… Aeroplane ’s 50 years have coincided with the most extraordinary developments in UK aviation heritage. For … Majesty. A couple of weeks later, with the underhandedness forgotten, a Sunday family trip was made to Hendon, and the … sales stand at the show, devouring Bill Gunston’s article: ‘TSR2: What Went Wrong’ on the journey home to …

By JAMES KIGHTLY 26th August 2023

… airliners The Handley Page W-class, while mostly forgotten today, bridged the gap between the converted … 4.5ft. Otherwise, the wings were a development of the bomber arrangement. They were trialled on O/400 C9713 by Lt … with asymmetric handling, and a triple fin and rudder, but most of these innovations proved unnecessary. The designer …

By Malcolm V Lowe 29th November 2022

… issue of Aviation News The Avro Lancaster is one of the most famous and celebrated warplanes to have been produced by … against Nazi Germany are legendary, but it is often forgotten that the Lancaster continued in service after the … than the four-gun 0.303in (7.7mm) armament of most wartime Bomber Command aircraft (although a similar two-gun …

By Jamie Ewan 10th April 2023

… fewer than 19 of the 134 Vulcans built survive worldwide. Most of these jets remain ‘live’ in some form, be it … signed February 25, 1956 – see  https://www.key.aero/article/how-do-you-keep-avro-vulcan-howling   XM573 Strategic … airframes selected for conversion back to the type’s often forgotten conventional bombing role in light of the Argentine …

By TONY BUTTLER 11th January 2023

… in a wood. Flying at those speeds was a serious and most dangerous business. Supermarine’s efforts to create a … was a single-seat, low-wing monoplane fighter and fighter-bomber powered by a Rolls-Royce Griffon 12-cylinder ‘V’-type … by the arrival of the jet fighter. And it should not be forgotten that the Spiteful remains one of the fasted piston …

By CHRIS GIBSON 30th November 2021

… The ‘V-bomber’ triad came together in 1952, its longest-serving … The answers lie in the geopolitics of 1952, in a world that appeared on the brink of nuclear war. The Berlin … designers at Avro and Handley Page were aiming to use the most up-to-date aerodynamics available, but even the final …

30th November 2021

… the Imperial Japanese Navy's staple carrier-based torpedo bomber of World War Two “Anyone who has seen the auto … naval aviation was the equal of any and superior to most. Their six fleet carriers had experienced working … the airborne aircraft. Three minutes later, all work was forgotten when he heard Ensign Manuel Gonzalez’s high pitched …

By Steve Beebee 4th December 2021

… a few of the significant figures behind the legendary bomber’s design …   The word ‘iconic’ is overused, but it is … The instantly recognisable big delta was without doubt the most popular and famous flying machine in the UK during the … longer around, many feared that his plans would be quietly forgotten. Stuart Davies, already a key part of the design …

By Tara Leggett 21st October 2021

… “It is no longer necessary to keep aircraft of the ‘V-Bomber’ force at immediate readiness”, said Healey. “Apart … about the Vulcan was that it had one too many pilots and most probably, even by the standard of the day, one too many … still to remain at the top of its game. Never should it be forgotten that, despite the efforts at détente that …

By A N Tupolev 8th November 2021

… In an article published in the Aeroflot magazine ‘Grazhdanskaya … the ANT-3 our aviation made its first appearance on the world scene, demonstrating the great success of the Soviet … of the Tu-144 the low aspect delta wing was chosen as the most rational form, but it also has an additional very highly …

29th October 2021

… Sholto Douglas as CO, No 84 Squadron changed from being a bomber to a fighter squadron, as reflected in Proctor’s … with another three out of control and one captured. His most successful day was 19 May, during which he sent a … his squadron and those around him that will not easily be forgotten.” Having been discharged from hospital in March …