In the 1920s the dream of British airship supremacy briefly flourished here. In 1924 the British government gave the green light for a new airship investment programme. Within five years ...
This was where the Battle of Britain was fought, in the skies over southern Britain, against the German air force, the Luftwaffe. The Germans first tried to destroy British air fields, so the RAF ...
A PACKED UK-bound flight was forced to turn back and make an emergency landing when passengers and crew became sick at 30,000ft. Toxic fumes made a dozen travellers and five British Airways staff ...
A British Airways crewmember accidentally deployed the aircraft’s emergency slide at London’s Heathrow Airport on Monday morning, delaying the flight for hours. The flight, which was scheduled ...
An aerial view of a portion of the Grand Fleet at anchor in the Firth of Forth looking at the iconic rail bridge, taken from the British Airship R.9. The battle for control of the North Sea during ...
Toxic fumes made a dozen travellers and five British Airways staff ill one hour after take-off. Passengers panicked and the captain decided to return to Dubai airport, where paramedics and ...
American and British airship projects are in no wise to be altered—experts in both countries claim that structural weakness of the Dixmude, hastily built in wartime, is to blame, that better ...