For the first time, the BBC has been allowed to fly a remote controlled camera along the tunnels of Crossrail, the giant building project that will eventually see trains criss-crossing London and the South East on a brand new train line. Continue reading
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Audi A6 Escapes Drone Attack
Audi’s 2016 A6 is for the birds. The Herndon, Va., luxury car brand has launched a humorous campaign for the sedan whose lead-off TV spot updates, in a truly creepy way, the most famous sequence from Alfred Hitchcock’s ornithological horror movie, switching out rogue crows for the much scarier prospect of rampaging flocks of drones. Continue reading
P-51 Mustang
Once again ex-RNZAF Strike Pilot Graham Bethell flings his WW2 P-51 Mustang around the skies with aplomb… Continue reading
Yakovlev Yak-3 Russian WW2 Fighter
The Yak-3 is arguably one of the best Russian fighter aircraft that saw service during World War Two. Continue reading
Grumman F8F-2P Bearcat
The Bearcat design was the Grumman response to the US Navy’s request in the latter war years for a fast responsive fighter to be deployed in the Pacific Theatre. Continue reading
Lockheed P-38 Lightning “Fork-Tailed Devil”
The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was a World War II American fighter aircraft built by Lockheed. Developed to a United States Army Air Corps requirement, the P-38 had distinctive twin booms and a single, central nacelle containing the cockpit and armament. Continue reading
Goodyear Corsair FG-1D
This Goodyear Corsair FG-1D was built under licence by the Goodyear Aircraft Corporation at their facility in Akron, Ohio and allocated Bu No 88297. Continue reading
Spitfire Mk.I – Battle of France
In 1936, before the first flight of the prototype, the Air Ministry placed an order for 310 Spitfires. However, in spite of the promises made by the Chairman of Vickers-Armstrongs (the parent company of Supermarine) that the company would be able to deliver Spitfire at a rate of five a week, it soon became clear that this would not happen. Continue reading