Edward Cuthbert-Powell and Archie Perkins may have been top of the class together at RAF Flying Training School, but the pair had little else in common. While Edward was loud and brash, Archie was quiet and a bit of a loner, much to the frustration of his classmate. When both are assigned to RAF Biggin […]
Stan Newman was a natural‑born pilot. He loved flying the marvellous Hawker Hart biplanes in India before the war, and then later the Hawker Fury fighters. So it was a great day for him when he took up the latest Hawker aeroplane, the famous Hurricane. He threw it all overt he sky in a wonderful […]
He’d said he would never surrender. He even made a bet on it. And when a guy like Mike Mason says something he sticks to his word. So, although he was shot down in enemy territory, taken prisoner by the Germans, slung in jail by the Italians, he never in fact surrendered! Of course, he […]
With the stick pulled right back and the engine screaming, the plane missed the heads of the startled Germans by mere inches. For a day and a night this Fairley Swordfish had been grounded in hostile territory, all for the want of a piece of copper tubing and a soldering iron. And they still weren’t […]
The young pilot officer could hardly believe his ears. But there was no mistaking the grim seriousness on the face of the Air Commadore, no question that he meant exactly what he had said…“I want you to go over to France and kill my son.” Story: Gentry Art: Gordon C Livingstone Cover: Ian Kennedy […]
Many air fighters painted an emblem on their machines, and William Kidd felt like a pirate with crossed cutlasses marked on his Sopwith Camel. That was before he shot down the ace German fighter with the broadsword on his plane… and then did the same to his son in the Spanish Civil War. Now, a […]
Tony Heywood is a talented pilot in the Fleet Air Arm with a feisty attitude —just what his team needs in their air battles against the Japanese. But when observer Bill Downey bails out after Heywood’s heroics get them shot down, Walrus skipper Roddy Baxter fails to pick him up before he runs out of […]
No-one had ever seen anything like these aircraft. With contra-rotating propellers, four massive cannons, fuselages that were the ultimate in streamlining, they rose vertically from their secret cavern, faster and deadlier than anything else in the sky. Nothing could stop them, no-one could even find them. And what was worse, they were commanded by a […]
No‑one had thought of it before. Frogmen, experts in underwater sabotage, were given training —as parachutists. Now they could fly in at the dead of night, release their ‘chutes as they hit the water, then go about their silent deeds of destruction. Story: Finley-Day Art: V Fuente Cover: Penalva
Squadron Leader ‘Flash’ Cooper was an excellent pilot, but he had one big failing — he was a glory hunter, and glory for him often meant danger for other pilots. So Flash made many enemies, and when he finally met a sticky end, the only question was… which one bumped him off? Story: RA […]
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