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Glenn Sands reviews three publications

The Spitfire world record holder
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.

The World’s Greatest Spitfire collection, part 2
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…

Two blokes and a Merlin engine!
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.

The Sea Vixen: 17 tons of naval jet fighter
Operational throughout the 1960s, the Sea Vixen was a 55ft-long beast capable of 690mph.

Spitfires and Red Arrows salute RAF Mildenhall!
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…

The Humming Bird: de Havilland's first light aeroplane
Devised for the early days of air racing, the RAF even investigated the possibility of launching Humming Birds from beneath airships…

What’s New?
FlyPast reviews our pick of the things to spend your money on...

Inside the world’s biggest aircraft carrier
Three years to the day since President Trump commissioned it, we take a closer look at the USS Gerald R. Ford – so big it has space for over 75 aircraft and can launch 220 airstrikes a day.

Shuttleworth hosts revolutionary drive-in airshow
Historic aviation events are back, social distance style! But don’t worry if you missed it – we went along and videoed it

Amazing warbird display marks VJ Day
Watch our 8-minute video with incredible footage of historic aircraft honouring the landmark 75th anniversary of the war’s end

The United States Air Force in Britain
Until now, books describing the USAF presence in the United Kingdom...

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

Made of wood, held together with four bolts: de Havilland’s WW2 game-changer
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.

The ground-attack Mosquito that used cigarette technology
Used for daring, low-flying raids, the Mosquito FB MkVI packed huge firepower – partly thanks to some ingenious thinking from an unlikely source.