How do you fly a Spitfire, or a Messerschmitt or even a Hurricane? Using original Pilots Notes, Campbell McCutcheon introduces you to the famous aircraft of the Battle of Britain.
Pat Hughes is today perhaps the greatest unsung hero of the Battle of Britain. Ranked sixth in the ace of aces’ of the aerial campaign of summer 1940, he shot down at least fourteen enemy
The bestselling WWII memoir of an American Spitfire pilot and legendary Prisoner of War escape artist.American Bill Ash went from Hobo to hero as he joined up to fly Spitfires for the RAF in 1940, bef
Formed at Rochford on 1 October 1918, just weeks before the Armistice that ended the First World War, 152 (Hyderabad) Squadron was originally a night fighter unit equipped with the Sopwith Camel. Its
This is the diary of a Spitfire Pilot who served in RAFVR before the war and then in the Battle of Britain and the European Theatre before being posted to Darwin in Australia to defend against Japanes
On 13 September 1931 the Schneider Trophy was won outright for Britain on Southampton Water by Flt Lt John Boothman flying Supermarine S6B, S1595, with a record-breaking average speed of 379.08mph. In
