A team of volunteers has completed the construction of a World War I biplane after more than 20 years—and they are now preparing to fly it. The Sopwith 1½ Strutter was built from scratch by the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Sopwith Aviation Company was founded by Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith in 1912 and the company opened its first factory that year in Kingston upon ...

Britain last week showed off a delta-wing plane, the Gloster Javelin, which its builder thinks is the fastest, longest-range, all-weather day & night fighter ever built. Nobody needed to guess who the ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Single-engine, single-seat, British-built World War I biplane fighter; 230 horsepower Bentley B.R.2 engine; Olive drab ...

An unsung genius who designed the two-winged fighter planes that ruled the skies over France in the First World War is to be the subject of a new book. It will reveal the true story of Herbert Smith's ...

A group of volunteers have built a First World War plane in a Lothians shed and hope to fly the historic craft soon. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited ...

The number of genuine First World War vintage military airplanes still known to exist across the globe grows smaller and smaller as each year passes. The number of airworthy examples of these aircraft ...

Pilot who flew many successful sorties scoring 15 victories in one month but who died during a take-off at Port Meadow PILOT George Thomson won the Military Cross for outstanding gallantry during the ...

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