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‘Sailor’ Malan, so nicknamed because he had served in the merchant navy before becoming a pilot. Sailor Malan by Cuthbert Orde, 1940 Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding and an aide pictured alongside several of “The Few” outside the Air Ministry on 14 September 1942. From left to right are: Squadron Leader A.C. Bartley DFC; […]

The first Naval Aviation Victoria Cross was awarded to Flight Sub Lieutenant Reginald Warneford serving with the Royal Naval Air Service and flying a Morane Saulnier Type L. Whilst flying over Belgium on a night-time mission to intercept Zeppelins, Flt Sub Lt Warneford spotted Zeppelin LZ. 37 flying over Ostend. The French built Morane Saulnier […]

Short Stirling Heavy Bomber: picture of 7 squadron Stirlings at RAF Oakington Stirling Mk III LJ514 B – Beer, with nose art (a bear holding a beer bottle painted on the nose ; the mission symbols carried by B – Beer were small foaming beer mugs) Bomber Command was stood down on 27/28 July but […]

RAF SE5a Hispano Suiza B4891 James McCudden 56 Squadron A Morane Parasol of No. 3 Squadron took off from Auchel for a long recco flight to Valenciennes on 15 December 1915. The crew, Second Lieutenant Charles Edward Tudor-Jones, observer, and pilot Second Lieutenant Alan Victor Hobbs, aged twenty-one, knew full well that the Fokker Eindecker […]