At the age of twelve, on hearing that Sir Ross Smith had broken the England-Australia aero record in a Vickers Vimy, Roly Alderson decided that he wanted to fly. Denied a secondary education, orphan ...

Operation Lustre, the British effort to support Greece against German aggression in World War II has long suffered from a lack of the attention that it really deserves. In fact its reduction to the ...

Sixty million years ago, an asteroid between ten and fifteen kilometres wide struck the Yucatan Peninsula in what is now Central America at a speed of around thirty kilometres per second and caused an ...

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In previous blogs we have explored the significance of certain dates during the Battle of Britain, including an evidenced argument that the Battle actually began on 2 July 1940, when Hitler first ...

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Heavy gun mountings dominated the design of larger warships, on account of their size, weight, protection and cost. In the 1890s, British gun mountings developed rapidly with new gun technologies ...

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The story of the Consolidated B-36 is unique in American aviation history. The aircraft was an interesting blend of concepts proven during the Second World War combined with budding 1950s high-tech ...