Featuring:
Vulcan Swansong
With Vulcan XH558 possibly about to enter her last display season, we go behind the scenes as she prepares for her retirement.
Flying the Mitchell
In the first of a new series written from the pilot’s perspective, Dave Unwin flies North American B-25J ‘Tondelayo’
In Focus
Steve Johnson explains how Richard Cooke pushed the boundaries of air-to-air photography.
USAAF Fighter Ace
Don Strait was the 356th Fighter Group’s ‘top gun’. He talked to Warren E Thompson about his time in the UK.
Early days at Cranwell
Alastair Goodrum looks at RAF Cranwell’s naval origins and the perils of preparing for operations.
Luftwaffe Album
Ernst Neubauer’s photographs provide superb insight into a medium bomber unit, as Chris Goss explains.
PLUS!
Spotlight on…
Supermarine Spitfire
Origin and History
A look at the history of the legendary British fighter.
Contemporaries Compared
We compare the Spitfire to two other Battle of Britain fighters.
Men Behind the Spitfire
Air Cdre Graham Pitchfork profiles three pilots who flew the Spitfire in World War Two.
Spitfire in Profile
Pete West artwork of Spitfire Mk.V flown by ‘ace’ George Beurling in Malta.
and much more!
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By: Edgar Brooks - 17th January 2013 at 19:56
On that date I was still 53 days away from being born, so am a little hazy; the way my mother spoke, I’d always thought it referred to the first raid, in Scotland, but had never seen any evidence until now (unless, of course, the Luftwaffe had a thing about rabbits, and there was more than one incident.)
By: Arabella-Cox - 17th January 2013 at 14:49
I had never heard that, Edgar! Interesting.
I have an original sepia-toned press print in my collection. The incident was 16 August 1940. I suppose the question is; when did Flannagan & Allen write their song?
By: Edgar Brooks - 17th January 2013 at 14:18
Possibly of interest to some, but I remember my mother telling me that the rabbit, in the photo on page 83, was the inspiration for the Flanagan & Allen song “Run, Rabbit, Run.”
By: clive stokes - 8th January 2013 at 20:55
In the item on the Burma Spitfire dig, flypast says XIV’s were built at Castle Bromwich, this is not the case, all contracts for XIV’s were with Supermarine in factories in the south of England .
By: tarkey - 7th January 2013 at 19:08
Great Article about Don Strait
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