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Posts By: Henry Tenby

Venoms & Vampires Jet Team

It’s not just the fighters and bombers that can be fun – here we see a UK operation which not only preserves but operates high performance jet trainers. These are also historically important because they were some of the RAF’s first jets. They also have a special starting technique unlike many other aircraft – a …Read more »

restored SAS DC-3 air-to-air

restored SAS DC-3 air-to-air videographer not known.

Mk IX Spitfire sold for £1.7 million!

Spitfire restored at Thruxton fetched £1.7 million at this weeks auction at an RAF museum in Hendon. The two-seater Vickers-Supermarine Spitfire Tr Mark IX was bought on Monday by adventurer Steve Brooks who was the first person to fly pole-to-pole by helicopter, landing in Antarctica in January 2005.

USAF B-52 Bombers movie clip from the 1950s or early 1960s

USAF B-52 Bombers movie clip from the 1950s or early 1960s. Does anyone know which movie this was from?

RAF Armstrong Whitworth Argosy colour footage 1960s

RAF Armstrong Whitworth Argosy colour footage 1960s

RAF Comet, Blackburn, Britannia, Twin Pin & Westland Whirlwind

RAF Air Head, an Air Ministry Film showing de Havilland Comet, Blackburn Beverleys, Bristol Commodores, Britannia Pioneer ‘Twin Pins’, and Westland Whirlwind Helicopters at El-Adem Libya in the 1950s . RAF Air Head