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The Saunders-Roe Princess story

Bearing the crown of the largest all-metal flying-boat ever constructed, the Saunders-Roe SR.45 Princess carried hopes of luxury transatlantic travel in a post-war era. Pete London charts the dreams and realities of the ill-fated giant

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Two men in a Martinsyde

Everyone remembers Alcock, Brown and their Vickers Vimy, but they had many rivals in the race to fly the Atlantic first — and the one-off Martinsyde Raymor, named after its two pilots, was among them...

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FIRST AMONG EQUALS

PIONEERS Harriet QuimbyJournalist, screenwriter, photographer:...

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PIONEERS: 1910 London-Manchester race

The cries of excited onlookers at Pytha Fold
Farm near Burnage said it all...

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Database: Curtiss H-12

For the Royal Naval Air Service’s first large waterborne aircraft, Britain looked across the Atlantic...

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BRIEF CANDLES

When Germany invaded the Netherlands during May 1940, pilots of the country’s tiny Fokker D.XXI force fought ferociously to defend its homeland...

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'We could hardly believe it'

No wonder Ray Parer and John McIntosh were so dumbfounded...

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AEROPLANE DATABASE: Martinsyde Elephant

Emerging in 1915, Martinsyde’s new biplane was a useful multi-purpose machine

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“I DECIDED IMMEDIATELY TO STRIKE”

Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, was unequivocal:...

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WARS of the ROSES

The age-old rivalry between Yorkshire and Lancashire has manifested...