which is a unique motor-generator device used during the second world war to generate high plate-voltage from the 28 VDC aircraft bus. These radios make for a great first-WW2 radio restoration ...

On 6 August 1945, the same day the US dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, an English soldier lost his life in a plane crash ...

World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end. The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era ...

More than 20,000 technical drawings of a World War Two aircraft have been found at a ... that was ever made to a Mosquito," he told BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales programme.

Following the post-World War II B-36 Peacemaker, the B-52 would be a critical component of Cold War nuclear brinksmanship. The B-52 is an enormous aircraft. Measuring 159 feet (49 meters ...

Battle of Britain Memorial Flight planes are a regular feature at summer air shows Wartime aircraft due to fly at this weekend’s Duxford Summer Air Show have been grounded after a fatal crash.

The RAF called for reinforcements and over the summer hundreds of Spitfires were shipped in by aircraft carriers ... out attacks on German ground forces. WW2: What was the secret to winning ...

The aircraft from Joby Aviation are some of the most advanced in this space, and [Peter Ryseck] set about building a radio-controlled model that flies in the same way. The design is inspired by ...

Douglas David Smith was a 21-year-old from Exley Head serving with the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Following an appeal on BBC Radio Leeds ... licensed dig for a WW2 aircraft in NI.

Radio Hanoi, a propaganda radio station run by the North Vietnamese Army, said on June 19, 1972, that North Vietnamese forces had shot down four aircraft in the past two days. The report claimed ...

A second Thunday Day event will take place at Yorkshire Air Museum this weekend where visitors can watch WW2 aircraft fire up ...

Wreckage from the crash was recently recovered by aviation archaeologist Jonny McNee, assisted by a group of pupils from Foyle College. An appeal has been issued to trace the relatives of the ...