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After the initial air raids of the Corpo Aereo Italiano (Italian Air Corps) against Britain in which no RAF fighters were met, things changed on 11 November 1940. Two Hurricane and one Spitfire ...
Although the Italian Air Corps (Corpo Aereo Italiano) faced heavy losses when they faced RAF fighters during their ... attacked the Italian Fiat CR.42 biplanes and a large dogfight developed.
Philip Makanna For the cover of the premier issue of Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine, published in April 1986, we chose a biplane, a configuration that aircraft designers had all but abandoned by ...
Comparisons between now and the 1930s are rife these days. There’s economic anxiety and global instability. There’s a threat of war. There’s hesitant rearmament here in Britain.
At last year's event, there were displays over St Aubins' Bay by the RAF Falcons parachute team, a Fairey Swordfish biplane and a PBY Catalina flying boat. Decorated test pilot James O'Connell was ...