WW2 pilot flew burning plane for 500 miles – and used tea to put it out
A Second World War aviator flew a plane which was on fire for 500 miles while trying to put it out with flasks of tea. Wing ...
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Service held to remember Carlisle RAF crewman who died in WW2 crash
A man is searching for the relatives of a Carlisle RAF Pilot Officer who was killed in a plane crash in North Norfolk in 1940. Archie Kerr of Long Sowerby lost his life aged just 19 in November ...
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The Cambridgeshire woodland where RAF airmen lived during WW2 with building ruins visible
There are traces of WW2 all over Cambridgeshire ... the woods at Bedford Purlieus woods were used in conjunction with RAF Kings Cliffe air base, located south of the woods. Airmen lived in ...
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RAF INNOVATES THE FUTURE OF PILOT TRAINING WITH REVOLUTIONARY RED 6 AUGMENTED REALITY TECHNOLOGY ON HAWK JET
Dec. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, the Royal Air Force (RAF) took a significant leap forward in redefining pilot training with the completion of successful demonstration flights of a ...
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“Thunder wings”, the story of Argentine RAF pilots
The story of the mostly 554 Anglo-Argentine pilots that joined the Royal Air Force in World War II, of which 122 died in combat, will be published in a book to be launched next August titled ...
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RAF chiefs shot down for using Gen Z slang as if it's 'selling trainers to teens' amid one of its worst recruiting crises
He closes the film with, 'Slay. Feeling boujee?' The slang evokes TV's The Armstrong And Miller Show in which RAF pilots from World War Two speak in upper class accents but use modern teenage ...
The Yorkshire Post21d
Heligoland Bight: How fishing trawler rescued Yorkshire RAF pilot and his crew after ill-fated air battle of Second World War
Born in Penistone, Barnsley, Sergeant John Richardson Ramshaw was the captain and pilot of one of the aircraft ... of his boat was recognised by an RAF Commander.” In February 1940, Frederick ...
The Daily Telegraph9d
South Korea plane crash: Placement of runway barrier ‘verging on criminal’
South Korean investigators looking into a jet crash that killed 179 people are examining the placement of a concrete barrier near the end of a runway after an expert called it “verging on ...
The Nation Newspaper24d
Sergey Skuratov, the Founder of Ural Airlines: A Biographical Overview
Simultaneously with his studies, he maintained employment with an aviation unit, serving in the capacity of second pilot on the light aircraft An-2. By 1973, he had advanced to the position of ...