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Sad to see that Toon Ghose died last month. He was well known at Shoreham Airport and taught many to fly from there. I got to know him during my time...

The honestly named War Office morphed into an Orwellian coalescence of the Ministry of Truth and the Ministry of Peace.

The latest pronouncement...

Captain Ron MacDonald was a well known character at Brooklands Museum, sometimes seen in the left hand seat of the Viscount (G-APIM) or the...

I thought that the wheels had to be retracted for water landings?

I hope they manage to repair it - they're great aircraft.

Trump wants to sell nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia?

Some countries are allowed nuclear power stations while others are not and then there are...

Why do these second rate military display teams think that they can carry out maneuvers that they are clearly not capable of.

Also look at the ranks...

Late last century many people worked quite hard to get North Korean airspace opened for civilian overflights, something that seems to have since...

We shouldn't use this site for advertising and I don't intend to. However....

I have just discovered that one of my colleagues on the Governing...

. I assume that is Condor as well.

...and so it goes on. Not good times.

A few years ago, I met Mr.Gill on the AST ramp at Perth. It was a brief meeting, and I doubt he'd rememember it, but i do.

He said that he'd flown...

New Idea for Valentines

Looking to get yourself a present this Valentine's Day? The El Paso Zoo has you covered. It will name a cockroach after...

Acsa said the realigned 3,500 metre runway will allow larger aircraft – such as the world’s largest passenger airline, the Airbus A380 – to land at...

And seems to offer up some 'silent prayers' at 12:40.....

Last time I was in YMUR saw one off to the side of the strip....such a beautiful...

Seeing as there is a big summer of cricket ahead - an Ashes series plus the World Cup - I thought it was time to start a thread about God's own...

I suppose today, this should be titled 'How many of these will get out the computer?'

Future flying thingies.

Some of this reads like an advert for the 777X but it's a good article. (DT)

777X: the gigantic plane that could change flying forever is nearly...

I don't watch Britain's Got Talent but a friend emailed me this video and this guy's performance is just stunning. This was on BGT last April. If you...

5 January 2019 • 2:49pm

The La-7 fighter plane of top Allied ace Ivan Kozhedub and the Po-2 biplanes flown by the Night Witches, the first female...

To critics at home, Oz was a bleeding-heart liberal – but to audiences around the world he was a literary giant, steadfast in his belief for a...

In a world where mammon and the pursuit of status and meaningless celebrity seems to be the norm it is heartening to read this kind of thing......

I am sure there are some who inhabit these halls who would have known Squadron Leader John M’Kenzie-Hall.

Squadron Leader John M’Kenzie-Hall, who...