Humanity achieved flight a mere decade before the outset of World War I in 1914, and pioneers did not take long to press the revolutionary new science into service. The first fighter pilots fought in ...

During Britain’s darkest hours in 1940 one young RAF pilot emerged as the most lethal defender of the nation. Eric Lock shot ...

LONDON, UK — The last surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain has died, severing the last living link to the few thousand young men who fought the Nazi air force to a standstill amid fears that ...

A ‘Diary’ of the Most Critical Ten Days of the Battle of Britain. Written by a prolific author – who started back when there were many veterans available for interviews – ...

The Battle of Britain ended 85 years ago today—closing a months-long air war with clear parallels to the ongoing fight in the skies over Ukraine. Due to sugar rationing, Halloween wasn’t a significant ...

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In video gaming circles, combat flight simulation tends to be an exclusively first-person affair. Developers have been fixated for decades on putting regular folks into the cockpits of historical ...