20 October 2013 • 2:10pm Here are a selection of the experimental flying oddities dreamed up by aeronautical engineers since the 1950s, many of which were built without the help of the advanced ...

Plucky isn’t a very fashionable word nowadays, but it perfectly describes the gung-ho spirit of Britain’s earliest women aviators. While newspapers fretted about the dangers to ‘girl flyers’ — what if ...

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NARRATOR (JACK FORTUNE): One hundred years ago, the entire course of human history was transformed by one of the greatest inventions of all time. Powered flight. From the Wright brothers first flight ...

Flying some of the earliest aircraft in aviation history was always rather tricky and very often downright dangerous. But it appears the pilots of one of Britain’s first air schools had more than ...

After a mysterious and lengthy disappearance, the historic patent documents for the Wright Brothers' groundbreaking flying machine have finally resurfaced and are now at home in the National Archives ...

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As conversation-stoppers go, Captain Eric Brown’s statement couldn’t have been more arresting: “Well, of course, the second time I met Hitler, it was different,” he said matter-of-factly. Article ...

DAN SNOW:Hello, I'm Dan Snow. Now anyone looking at World War One knows that 1918 is the year the conflict ended after four years of bitter fighting. DAN SNOW:But 1918 is also the year in which ...

NARRATOR (JACK FORTUNE): One hundred years ago, the entire course of human history was transformed by one of the greatest inventions of all time. Powered flight. From the Wright brothers first flight ...