This article investigates Britain's first jet fighter. Also, a member of an RAF unit that worked on the Meteor tells about a ...

Britain played a large role in that push. De Havilland's influential DH.106 Comet, a prototype that arrived in July 1949, would become the first airliner powered by a jet engine. Just over a ...

Built by the now-defunct Westland Aircraft, the Lysander made its maiden flight on June 15, 1936, and made its official operational debut with the RAF in June 1938. It had been first envisioned in ...

But Hilda “Billy” Hewlett was ticking off aviation firsts while Johnson was still learning her ‘three Rs’. Born in Vauxhall in 1864, Hewlett was approaching her 40s when the Wright brothers first ...

Dubbed the Battle of Britain, it was the first decisive clash of Second World ... of limitless space traced with white plumed trails of wheeling aircraft as they fought. It was like skywriting ...