Aeroplane Magazine

Supermarine Spitfire

PROUD HERITAGE

22nd May 2025

BIGGIN HILL HERITAGE HANGAR Spitires and Biggin Hill have...

Supermarine Spitfire

PROUD HERITAGE

22nd May 2025

BIGGIN HILL HERITAGE HANGAR Spitires and Biggin Hill have...

Icarus Rising

22nd May 2025

GREEK SPITFIRE Currently resident in the Biggin Hill Heritage...

BACK TO BERLIN

22nd May 2025

BERLIN AIRLIFT SALUTE Blockaded Berlin was, wrote The Aeroplane...

BACK TO BERLIN

22nd May 2025

BERLIN AIRLIFT SALUTE Blockaded Berlin was, wrote The Aeroplane...

CALLING OFF the BERLIN BOMBERS

22nd May 2025

Very soon after the armistice, it was revealed that the RAF —...

BOAC

BOAC Comet: First Transatlantic commercial jet flight

22nd May 2025

“We have got the taps right open”. So read one of the radio messages passed from British Overseas Airways Corporation DH Comet 4 G-APDB to a sister aircraft as they made the first commercial jet flight across the Atlantic, between New York and London, 60 years ago — and injected new hope into the troubled Comet story

BOAC

BOAC Comet: First Transatlantic commercial jet flight

22nd May 2025

FLYING THE ‘MOVIE MESSERSCHMITT’

22nd May 2025

The Hispano HA-1112 Buchón is a significant fighter in its own...

FIFTY YEARS ON…

22nd May 2025

Warbird pilot Dave Ratcliffe on getting to grips with the Buchón...

Aeroplane meets ‘CONNIE’ EDWARDS

22nd May 2025

He’s best-known for his role in filming Battle of Britain....

UPSIDE DOWN & INSIDE OUT

22nd May 2025

When they started flying the DH Tiger Moth and then the Avro...

Falklands War (1982)

How the UK scrambled to stand up Sea King AEW fleet after HMS Sheffield attack

22nd May 2025

The deadly Exocet attack on HMS Sheffield brought home the need to rapidly regenerate airborne early warning in the Royal Navy, which had disappeared with the Fairey Gannet. As the service’s last Westland Sea Kings are retired, we recall Project LAST — the programme that brought the helicopter into operation in this role