Was Keith Harris's Orville really named after the first-ever flyer?What exactly is a 'Spitfire'?Why did Richard Branson try to cross the Atlantic in a balloon when he owned an …
IN 1945 confidence in British aviation was sky-high. Yet decades later, the industry had not lived up to its potential. What happened? The years that followed the war saw the …
It has been 100 years since the first airfield was established in the country town of Yeovil. Since 1915, aircraft have been designed, manufactured and tested at Westland, …
Almost everything you know about airships is wrong. Between 1917 and 1935, the US Navy poured tens of millions of dollars into their airship programme, building a series of …
