A young South African pilot has been credited with the honour of “The Commonwealth's Top WWII Ace” but is still relatively unknown as he...

Operation Tidal Wave was an air attack by bombers of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) based in Libya on nine oil refineries...

The Alouette III has its origins with an earlier helicopter design by French aircraft manufacturer Sud-Est, the SE 3120 Alouette, which,...

By Rob Russell The 1970s saw the beginning of many wide-body designs. The jets almost came to the civil market by default – primarily as...

From the late 1930s onwards, considerable progress was made in an entirely new field of aeronautics in the form of rotary-wing aircraft....

Edgar Schmüd was born in Hornbach, Germany, on 30 December 1899. His father Heinrich Schmüd was an Austrian, so Edgar inherited Austrian...

By Garth Calitz In 1930, a Bentley Sportsman Coupé beat France's Famous Blue Train in a race from Cannes to Calais. This great feat is...

By Duncan Gillespie Photos by Andre Venter This past Saturday, 26 August 2023, saw the annual gathering of surviving members of the South...

The Sea Dart began as Convair's entry in a 1948 U.S. Navy contest for a supersonic interceptor aircraft. During the time, there was much...

Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, the founder of the de Havilland World Enterprise, one of the first global manufacturing companies, was one of...