Aircraft: General Interest

''A soaring gift of a book'' Owen Sheers''Remarkable'' Mark Vanhoenacker, author of Skyfaring''Stunning . . . a love letter to nature'' Cathy Rentz...

During the Second World War, more than 9,000 flying boats were produced by the main protagonists, fulfilling a multitude of roles including maritim...

When Winston Churchill delivered his famous Iron Curtain speech in 1946, he mentioned two words now engrained in Anglo-American terminology - speci...

When Ronald Waters bought 90 acres of farmland adjacent to the Gatwick racecourse in 1930 in order to set up a private airfield, little did he know...

The wonder of flight has long captured the human imagination. In this beguiling history ranging from the first aircraft to astronauts and beyond ...

Against a backdrop of inadequate funding, misplaced priorities and a lack of manpower, American commercial aviation in the 1960s was in a perilous ...

Founded by Thomas H. Davis in 1948, Piedmont Airlines was one of the most respected regional airlines of its time. This exhaustive history follo...

Walter Hinton was a pilot on the first plane to cross the Atlantic (eight years before Lindbergh)--a four-engine, Navy-Curtiss flying boat with ...

Pioneer aviatrix Jessie Chubbie Miller made a significant contribution to aviation history. The first woman to fly from England to her native Au...

The incredible true story of the origin of human flight, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough. On a winter day in 1903, in the Out...

With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Kiffin Yates Rockwell, from Asheville, North Carolina, volunteered to fight for France. Initial...

Everybody dreams of flying. For as long as we''ve been able to look up and see the birds we''ve wanted to join them. But our efforts to do so have ...

Strap yourself in an prepare for take off! This is a first: a flying course for children who relish the detail of dials, widgets and flight panels,...