Search

26th October 2020

Straight after Flt Lt Charlie Brown notched an astonishing 1,500 hours flying Spitfires, Key.Aero spoke to him about what makes this iconic aircraft so special.

30th October 2020

Covid has temporarily scuppered organised tours of the Heritage Hangar at Biggin Hill, so we went to have a mooch ourselves to give you a feel for it. Here’s the second part of our guided tour…

28th October 2020

Look what Spitfire restorer Tony Hoskins just happened to have in the back of his van! He and Cambridge University engineering professor, Hugh Hunt, discuss one of the great inventions of the 20th Century.

26th September 2020

Operational throughout the 1960s, the Sea Vixen was a 55ft-long beast capable of 690mph.

18th September 2020

Established in 1930, RAF Mildenhall was used during World War II and is still in use today. A quartet of Supermarine Spitfires led the celebrations…

21st September 2020

Devised for the early days of air racing, the RAF even investigated the possibility of launching Humming Birds from beneath airships…

30th December 2019

FlyPast reviews our pick of the things to spend your money on...

By Tara Leggett 27th February 2021

Tally Ho Project founder David Duker tells the amazing story of how he and a friend visited Ireland to talk to John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway, the last survivor of Churchill’s Few

By Tara Leggett 8th March 2021

‘I am the pilot’! Mary Ellis’s is just one of the incredible stories of the Spitfire Girls. To mark International Women’s Day, David Duker tells Mary’s story, as well as other stories from within the 168 female members of the ATA, without whom the Battle of Britain may not have been won…

By Tara Leggett 16th April 2021

We speak to Sam Scrimshaw, the Deputy Crew Chief at the Vulcan to the Sky Trust, about getting into aviation engineering – and why it’s a great career...

3rd August 2020

Historic aviation events are back, social distance style! But don’t worry if you missed it – we went along and videoed it

3rd September 2020

Watch our 8-minute video with incredible footage of historic aircraft honouring the landmark 75th anniversary of the war’s end

21st September 2020

As we begin our week-long celebration of de Havilland’s 100th anniversary, we look back at where it all began…

24th September 2020

From being turned down by the Ministry of Defence to becoming de Havilland’s greatest wartime aircraft, the story behind the Mosquito – and the incredible engineering behind it – showed aviation ingenuity at its very best.

24th September 2020

Used for daring, low-flying raids, the Mosquito FB MkVI packed huge firepower – partly thanks to some ingenious thinking from an unlikely source.