Hawker Aircraft News

Bob Giddings and friend in a scrapped Hawker Hurricane at Waterbeach airfield in 1951.

Visit Paine Field The Washington Pilots Association and Paine Field plan to host the 18th annual Paine Field Aviation Day on Saturday.

The RAF's Black Arrows display team founder was reunited with the jet he flew more than 50 years ago for his 90th birthday.

This article, written by DAVID COXON , Tangmere Military Aviation Museum's curator, is the fourth in a series of monthly articles on the people of RAF Tangmere.

We like drag racing things here at Motor Trend . One vehicle that's always near the front of the pack during our signature World's Greatest Drag Races is the Nissan GT-R , which has made mincemeat of the Ferrari 458 Italia and McLaren 12C, among others.

PEOPLE will be greeted by Tom Cruise when they walk into the exhibition,' says Zarian Babjan with a smile that could only be flashed by someone who just won the lottery.

It was August, 1940, and what was to become known as the Battle of Britain - one of the most pivotal battles in the history of warfare - had been raging across the southern half of the country for more than 3 months.

Oakley G. Kelly and John A. Macready complete the first non-stop flight across the U.S. in less than 27 hours from Long Island to Arizona in a Fokker T-2. 1942 - In a raid on the Arctic convoy PQ 15, six Heinkel He 111 s of the Luftwaffe's I. Gruppe, Kampfgeschwader 26, make Germany's first torpedo bomber attack of World War II.

This photo made available on Friday May 3, 2013 by the RAF Museum London shows a formation of German WWII Dornier Do17 bombers.

St Wilfid's pupils Libby Rix, Matthew Cooper and Grace Tyssen watch as enactor Alex Roberts demonstrates to Tom Mills the type of parachute Yves MahA© would have worn YOUNGSTERS from a York primary school were among the first to see a city-centre exhibition telling the story of the York Blitz.

The Auburn University Regional Airport is bringing the first true air show to eastern Alabama since 1984 when the Auburn-Opelika Airshow kicks off on May 11.

WE all know the story of the York Blitz - that awful night in April 1942 when German bombs rained down.

THE 70th anniversary of a world famous flying school that has trained some of the greatest test pilots in aviation history will be celebrated at this summer's Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford.

Tickets go on sale this week for Scotland's national Airshow at the National Museum of Flight at East Fortune, East Lothian on Saturday, July 27.

Very ocassionally, someone does something quite startling. In this case it was John Taylor, who decided to design and BUILD this pretty little monoplane in his first-floor living room in an apartment in Ilford, Essex ! It just so happened to be the first post-WW2 British homebuilt design to fly.

Bob Giddings and friend in a scrapped Hawker Hurricane at Waterbeach airfield in 1951.