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There are up to 5 solar eclipses every year and a total solar eclipse about every 18 months. One of those total solar...
26 April 2024
ML407 1944
The year 1944, the month June, the day the 6th. The commencement of the invasion of Europe with Operation Neptune to ...
24 November 2023
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Born in 1942, I obviously have few memories of WWII but one remains vivid. It is also the first distinct memory I hav...
23 August 2023
Commer
You may have seen a dark blue vintage van parked next to XH558 during our Airside Tours and Engine Ground Runs. ...
28 July 2023
Roly Falk
In mid-1956 I returned to England from a two year working holiday in New Zealand and Australia, and urgently needed t...
28 July 2023
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English Electric Canberra WK163 is one of Britain’s most important Cold War jet-age aircraft. She spent most of...
30 June 2023
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Barnes Wallis The concept for the Dambusters raid was first proposed early in World War II by aeronauti...
31 March 2023
Roy Chadwick
With the dawning of the atomic age in August 1945, it was obvious to military strategists that any future bomber to d...
25 November 2021
AERE-Bus-c-Brian-Matthews
January 1947 – Clement Attlee’s government had made the decision that Britain required an independent nuc...
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Two weeks before the first nuclear weapon was used for warfare, dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the result...