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Added during 2010
2010-04-12
In 2007, a Spitfire crash site was uncovered in France, leading to the possible identification of the grave of the RAF pilot who remained ...
2010-04-12
“The origins of the Kent County Squadron idea began back in August 1940, when no less a person than Bob Stanford Tuck brought down ...
2010-04-12
“The basic specifications for United States aircraft now flying in combat areas were laid down five years or more ago, an indication of the ...
2010-04-12
“Working under the closest secrecy since 1939, over 4,000 WAAF personnel have played an important part in the air victories achieved by radiolocation (Radar). ...
2010-04-12
The following text in an excerpt from the dispatch submitted to the Secretary of State for Air on 29th February, 1948, by Marshal of ...
2010-04-12
The Royal Air Force is 90 years old. It was formed from the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air ...
2010-04-12
Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding ranks undoubtedly as one of the best remembered and most influential commanders in the 90 years of RAF history. ...
2010-04-12
P/O Harold John Appel Hunstanworth is a small village in County Durham in North-East England. Surrounded by high moorland plateau, much of the landscape ...
2010-04-12
“If anybody ever tells you anything about an aeroplane which is so bloody complicated you can’t understand it, take it from me: it’s all ...
2010-04-12
“There was an entirely different atmosphere flying the the Far East compared to the European show. The risk from enemy action was considerably less ...
