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An attempt to distill the crash of Air France 447 down to the the simple causes and dispel some of the fanciful and unhelpful theories that surround this accident.
The accident aircraft, an A330-200.
The location of the wreckage of Flight 447.
Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Pawel Kierzkowski, Valter Campanato/ABr and Roberto Maltchik Repórter da TV Brasil.
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My first Plane Tale when they weren’t really a thing… the story of Joe Gilmore remastered, re-recorded and revisited. This was the vital British addition to the Apollo mission to put men on the Moon!
Otherwise known as the Four Score and Ten… created for Sir Winston Churchill on his 90th Birthday.
The drink that the first Moon walking Apollo astronauts tasted after their mission quarantine ended.
Created to celebrate the Apollo-Souyz joint project to join up in space.
Joe Gilmore’s supposed hangover cure!
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A conversation with Sir Richard Johns KCB KCVO CBE and retired Chief of the Air Force about his love of military history.
Images by NickAndersonPhoto.co.uk
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An explanation of some of the strange terms that we bandy about in aviation.
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The poppies were some of the first flowers to grow over the churned battlefields and freshly turned earth of war graves during the First World War and on 3 May 1915 they inspired the Canadian physician Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae after witnessing the death of his friend and fellow soldier the day before, to write the poem ‘In Flanders Fields’.
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
McCrae’s poem, In Flanders Fields.
The funeral of Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae who was buried with full military honours.
Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to King W. L, MarnixR and the Guelph Museums.
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W E Johns wasn’t just a brave World War 1 pilot who survived being shot down over enemy territory but after the war he became an author who inspired generations of young people to become pilots. Under the pen name of Captain W E Johns he wrote over a hundred adventure books featuring a fearless pilot and his trusty crew. This is the story of Biggles and his creator!
Biggles fought in two world wars and several campaigns!
Like his author, he started off flying in WW1.
Perhaps his greatest success was on the radio in Australia!
Translated into many languages Biggles had world wide appeal except for the USA where he was thought to be too British!
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