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Lost over East Africa, Captain Alcock takes the only course of action available and lands in a narrow river, ripping open the hull of his Imperial Airways flying boat Corsair. This is the story of how a small team of engineers brave the African jungle to repair the aircraft, not once but twice!
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During the Vietnam war, Captain Bob Pardo finds an unusual way to help his buddy after being hit by anti-aircraft fire.
Title image, “Pardo’s Push” by S.W. Ferguson
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The story of three lone Sea Gladiator biplanes and their brave pilots who defended the besieged island of Malta during WWII.
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A little lesson in basic combat manoeuvres for the budding Phantom pilot.
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The year was 1976 and, for the RAF, it wasn’t a good year and it wasn’t a bad year. However, in that year the RAF lost 43 aircraft and 27 personnel, one of which was a fellow student.
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Major Andrei Durnovtsev was about to get airborne in his TU95 Bear. Hanging from the white painted aircraft was a 27 Ton monster, the largest nuclear bomb ever devised. It was so vast that he didn’t even know if he would survive the explosion when he delivered the Tsar Bomba.
The site of the detonation.
The Tsar Bomba’s fireball which reached 5 miles in diameter.
The mushroom cloud of the Tsar Bomba the crown of which reached 45 miles up into the atmosphere.
Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Croquant, Minatom, SA3.0 and atomicforum.com
