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RIAT 2007
The Royal International Air Tattoo is a very large Air Show containing hundreds of military aircraft from a wide variety of countries both in the static park and flying display. RIAT has been held at Fairford since 1985 and one of the themes of this years display was to mark the 60th anniversary of the [...]
North Weald Airfield 2007
North Weald Airfield was established as a military airfield during the First World War. It continued to be used as a military base between the wars and was an important Royal Air Force base in the Second World War. North Weald is also home to Aces High who specialise in providing aircraft for use in [...]
Folland Gnat- Petter’s lightweight fighter
W.E.W Petter was a brilliant aircraft designer, responsible for some very well-known British aircraft types. When working at Westland he designed the Lysander communication plane and the quite unorthodox Whirlwind twin-engine fighter. After the war he joined English Electric and gained again fame with his design for a twin-jet bomber: the Canberra. Yugoslavia used only [...]
