Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Bernd Schafer 1951-

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Sunday, February 07, 2021

S/Ldr F.A Cousins RAAF

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Monday, October 12, 2020

Claes Smith

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Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Ian A. Forbes 1920-xxxx

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  Ian Forbes learned to fly in 1937 aged 17 and was an instructor and V.I.P. pilot in A.T.A. during the war years. He joined the Miles broth...
Sunday, September 13, 2020

Bo Bjernekull 1920-1971

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Thursday, May 28, 2020

S/Ldr Robert ‘Bob’ Smyth

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Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Richard 'Dick' N. Rumbelow

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Richard 'Dick' N. Rumbelow joined Hunting Aircraft in April 1957 after serving in the RAF from 1951. He was with No 208 Sqn in t...
Saturday, May 16, 2020

Danny Shapira

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Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Joseph 'Joe' Parker 1909-1945

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Joseph Parker was chief test pilot and Director of Flight Operations at Republic Aviation. He was killed when the P-47N Thunderbolt he was...
Friday, May 08, 2020

Dennis Whittam

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Thursday, May 07, 2020

Len Houston 19xx-2017

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Tuesday, April 28, 2020

S/Ldr Arthur Robert Moore DFC* 19xx-1989

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 Bob Moore climbing into prototype J-29 before its maiden flight in 1948 Arthur Robert Moore joined the RAFVR about May 1939 as an A...
Saturday, April 11, 2020

William ‘Bill’ Magruder 1923-1977

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During his five years with the Air Force, Mr. Magruder, a graduate of the Air Force's Experimental Test Pilot School, ...
Tuesday, April 07, 2020

Van H. Shepard 1925-1970

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Van Shepard rose from a humble upbringing in the Great Depression to pursue his lifelong passion for aviation. After receiving hi...
Sunday, April 05, 2020

Murray ‘Bob’ Hawley 1914-1962

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Thomas Walter Gillespie 1924-2017

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Tom Gillespie enrolled in college on a football scholarship at Virginia Polytechnic Institute VPI (VA Tech) and to...
Wednesday, March 04, 2020

James B. Reichert 1925-1995

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James Barnum Reichert was a senior research specialist for Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, he passed away 23rd May 1995.  Jim worked for...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Vergil C.Givens 1925-2019

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After graduating from Union High School at age 16, he attended West Virginia Tech before entering the United States Military Academy, w...

Capt Robert Langley

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Capt. Robert Langley s erved in the  R.A.F. from 1941-46, and was awarded a D.F.C. in 1944. Was an instructor at Upper Heyford in 1944, and...
Sunday, February 04, 2018

Ejection Seat History - courtesy of Hartley Moyes

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Thursday, January 18, 2018

Eddie McNamara DFC QCVS

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Eddie McNamara (right) with John Cochrane

Oscar P 'Bud'.Hass 1908-1957

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Oscar P.Haas --> F/F XF-12 Rainbow 4/2/46 F/F YF-96A 3/6/50

Richard A. Henson 1910-2002

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Richard A. Henson was born in 1910 in Hagerstown, Md., and was raised in the village of Paramount by Frank and Ora Belle Henson -- both ...

Gilbert Defer 1935-2017

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Gilbert Defer had flown 70 different aircraft totaling 8500 hours of flying time 1450 on Concorde He was a fighter pilot in the Fr...