I received a request last week regarding the cockpit instruments that were standard in the Royal Aircraft Factory RE8, one of the...

Following a request from a number of people who have read my book 'Leaning on a Lamp Post', I am including here a composite map of the town of Basingstoke (UK), being a black and white 1894 map of the city superimposed on a colour photograph of the same area, courtesy of Google Earth. A great deal of research went into the section of the book that took place in Basingstoke during 1910, especially in the area around the old wharf (now the bus station). It is interesting to see

I have completed the digitisation of 86 aerial photographs taken by 6 Squadron aircrew prior to the preliminary bombardment at Messines,...

Resulting from a query received via my website from Richard Knight, a letter has come to light, written by the temporary flight commander...

By sheer good fortune, and thanks to David Weekes who offered me some of his photographic collection from WW1, I have become the custodian of an official document produced by 6 Squadron Royal Flying Corps shortly after the Battle of Messines in June 1917. The document (unique as far as I know and only recently come to light after almost 100 years) comprises some 86 aerial photographs of the area around the Messines ridge, taken between December 1916 and the days immediately p

A 1918 map that locates the four allied airfields at Poperinge, belgium