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The Hawker Hurricane is a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd. Some production of the Hurricane was carried out in Canada by the Canada Car and Foundry Co Ltd. Although largely overshadowed by the Supermarine Spitfire, the aircraft became renowned during the Battle of Britain.The 1930s design [...]

Number sixteen of the SAM monograph publications is on one of the most beautiful aircraft ever built: the Hawker Hunter. Just like the other volumes, this book is fully packed with photos (and a lot of them in colour!), colour profiles and technical drawings from the Hunter manual. In almost 130 pages, the following chapters [...]

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 [...]

The Flying Legends Air Show is held every year at the famous World War II airfield of Duxford. You can expect to see a variety of vintage warbirds performing air displays. Duxford is also the home of The Fighter Collection as well as the Imperial War Museum collection. Hawk 75 in French WW2 camouflage and [...]

Few decades ago bitter fight was happen over the South Asia sky and opposed sides was India and Pakistan. Art bellow captured one moment in this war and this is battle happen over Dacca on 4 December 1971, when the India’s pilot Harish Masand had down Pakistan F-86 Sabre piloted by Saeed Afzal Khan. Masand [...]

Duxford is an excellent museum and must rate as one of the best aircraft museums in the world, it is located in Cambridgeshire and was an active airfield during the Second World War. The famous pilot Douglas Bader was based at Duxford also the film Battle of Britain was filmed here. Followingg airplanes are present [...]

One of the most famous collection of preserved aircraft in the world- museum in Hendon. Author Robert Hodgson visited RAF museum at Hendon in March 2007 and here are some photos of aircraft not photographed on previous visits. Helicopter in rescue yellow color Images present following airplanes: Sikorsky Hoverfly I s/n KK995, Westland Whirlwind HAR10 [...]

During the short war against Yugoslavia in 1941, German have sent many recognizance missions in the depth of the Yugoslav territory. Yugoslav pilot managed few interceptions as well shot down of the aircraft. Scene here, named “Plamen nad Sumadijom”, show one scene where is German airplane Henschel Hs126 being downed by Yugoslav fighter Hawker Hurricane. [...]

In the mid of thirties Yugoslav aviation operated with the modern airplane of the period but it’s time were slowly running out. All other foreigner air forces was similarly equipped with biplanes but they looking forward for their replacement in close future with all metal monoplanes with retractable undercarriage. A plan for modernization of VV [...]