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
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...
PIONEERS: 1910 London-Manchester race
The cries of excited onlookers at Pytha Fold
Farm near Burnage said it all...
Database: Curtiss H-12
For the Royal Naval Air Service’s first large waterborne aircraft, Britain looked across the Atlantic...
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...
AEROPLANE DATABASE: Martinsyde Elephant
Emerging in 1915, Martinsyde’s new biplane was a useful multi-purpose machine
“I DECIDED IMMEDIATELY TO STRIKE”
Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, was unequivocal:...