Supermarine Spitfire: The Complete History
The complete, fact-checked history of the Supermarine Spitfire: origins, the elliptical wing, the Battle of Britain, every major mark, production, surviving aircraft and legacy. Read article
Category: Aviation History
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Louis Blériot: From Acetylene Lamps to Crossing the Channel
The man who climbed into a small monoplane at Les Baraques, just outside Calais, on the morning of 25 July 1909 was not a natural-born flyer. He was a businessman in his late thirties with a badly burned foot, a long record of expensive crashes, and a fortune he had very nearly spent. A few… Read article
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French Aviation Pioneers, 1908–1932: A Golden Age, Rescued from the Glass Plates
For a few extraordinary years before the First World War, France was the centre of the flying world. While the Wright brothers guarded their patents across the Atlantic, it was on French airfields, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Port-Aviation at Juvisy, the great meeting ground at Reims, that aviation became a public spectacle, a sport and an industry all… Read article
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Why Aviation History Still Matters in the Age of Instant Imagery
Aviation has never been more visible than it is today. Aircraft are photographed constantly, on flightlines, at airshows, through fences, from terminals, and across social media platforms that reward speed and novelty above all else. Images circulate instantly, stripped of context, date, provenance, and often accuracy. Yet aviation history has never been more vulnerable to… Read article