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By Bill Cahill 31st July 2020

… to protect the Hawaiian islands. Bill Cahill explores this forgotten story Aircraft remained something of an unknown … pilot’s seat back and the gas tank forward, correcting the most serious flaw in the original design. Of these, 100 were … available, the squadrons had to borrow aeroplanes from bomber units to augment their four amphibians. Six Martin …

By Jonny Cracknell 1st July 2020

… Battle of Britain. He was destined to be another of the forgotten ‘Few’ – just one of the near 3,000 audacious … alongside Plt Off Robert ‘Bob’ Doe – who became one of the most successful aces of the battle with 14 confirmed ‘kills’ … of it covering shipping convoys and embarking on fighter/ bomber sweeps over the Suez Canal and into Libya. However, …

By Matthew Willis 9th July 2020

… aviation establishment with his revolutionary Fox light bomber has passed into lore. Less well-known is the parallel … load; that in building it [the pilot’s] view should not be forgotten; and that it should have from 2 hours petrol … power again as the D-12, but was almost twice the weight. Most importantly, the Lion and Condor represented older …

By Malcolm V Lowe 29th May 2020

… Boeing’s B-17 Flying Fortress is most celebrated for its strategic bombing with the Eighth Air … like the ‘Mighty Eighth’, it comprised fighter and heavy bomber units – the latter being equipped either with the more … a long and ultimately successful campaign in this often-forgotten aspect of the air war over Europe. Several B-17Gs …

By Malcolm V Lowe 29th May 2020

… abortive frontline activities over Britain It is often forgotten that the Battle of Britain was not simply an aerial … British targets using Italian aircraft and personnel. Its bomber force comprised FIAT BR.20 twin-engined aircraft, to … and Dover but failed to draw RAF fighter opposition. The most celebrated action of the 18° Gruppo and its CR.42s came …

31st October 2019

… by mother nature, the site was destined to become a forgotten relic of the Cold War. However, a newly-opened … By sheer chance Mention the words RAF Sculthorpe and most in the aviation world will have an inkling of a … USAAF Boeing B-17s and redevelopment into a ‘very heavy bomber base’. Entering the jet age in June 1953 with the 47th …

By Lee Cook 31st January 2020

… – normally about 36 bombers and a similar number of Zeros. Most of the time on the ground was spent dodging shells and … worse, the Japanese had started sending over a lone bomber at night to harass the US forces, while disrupting … of those stuck on the torturous island felt they had been forgotten by their leaders – despite their maximum efforts. …

29th November 2019

… Over Brum certainly warrants a second look. While most research has focused on the effects of the World War Two … of Britain became hostile and dangerous places for German bomber crews. The book examines the four phases of the blitz, … context, the victims of the attacks are certainly not forgotten. An appendix lists every known civilian fatality in …

By DR RUDOLF STUMBERGER 14th November 2019

… and inflict the greatest possible damage on the enemy. Most of them are best-known from footage shot by American … of the cockpits were occupied by 17-year-old boys is often forgotten. The story is told in two museums on Kyushu: in the … model, and a Yokosuka D4Y-1 Suisei carrier-borne dive-bomber, along with a replica of a Yokosuka Ohka 22 flying …

1st February 2019

… Spitfire pilot Charley Fox’s suggested attack given the most credence. My father’s memoir, entitled An Outline of My … Saunders handling his staff was a lesson I have not forgotten. He was very greatly admired by his team, whom he … alongside a similarly marked machine, SW496, equipped as a bomber. J BALDWIN While at HQ 11 Group I was engaged on …

By Lindsay Peacock 6th June 2019

… — considered the F-106 Delta Dart to be far and away the most elegant of this remarkable collection of fighter … years as high-speed chase aircraft for the Rockwell B-1B bomber program between 1986 and 1990. Even that wasn’t quite … as the afterburner of the J75 engine lit was never to be forgotten, as anyone who witnessed F-105 and F-106 departures …

29th March 2019

… part one of the 1990-91 interviews I conducted with the most successful ace ever, the Luftwaffe ‘Experten’ Erich … Training fatalities on all sides in conflict are often forgotten. In Erich’s case he had two near misses during his … still fly as did the Il-2. I used to call it ‘The Concrete Bomber’ and I always came in fast and closed the distance, …

28th December 2018

… KEC “Designed to Specification F29/27, the Type 161 was a bomber destroyer; hurling shells weighing 1½lb into the … the Gamecock was always regarded as having ‘bite’, most of its undesirable characteristics were ironed out. Time … public access. The magnificent legacy of The Heath was not forgotten; buildings on the domestic and technical sites were …

By Joe Lavery 20th December 2018

… or disassembled in any way whatsoever. Library files Most X-plane users will already know that many freeware … warbird in a week. He tells me it was to see if he’d forgotten how to do it! Well, I would say he hasn’t; what do … Good Systems: Good PC Pilot Score: 85% … PC Pilot Article Index Looking for a review on a particular product, …

28th September 2018

… STATED Fieseler’s Fi 156 Storch (Stork) was one of the most versatile and distinctive aircraft of World War Two. The … sense meant the Storch was overshadowed by fighter and bomber aircraft. However, there was one audacious operation early in the war that has generally been forgotten. On May 10, 1940, 400 men of III. Bataillon …