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On 3 December 1945, Captain.Winkle Brown became the first pilot to land on and (pictured) take-off from an aircraft carrier (HMS Ocean) in a jet aircraft. The aircraft he flew — the de Havilland Sea Vampire LZ551/G — is now preserved at the Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovilton, Somerset. Extract from Documentary: Britain’s Greatest […]

Until at least 1936, the Royal Navy did not try to interest the British Air Ministry in the development of high-performance fighters for its aircraft carriers, because the RN’s air officers did not think that an effective combat air patrol could be mounted around a carrier. By the time approaching bombers could be sighted and […]