Airborne Early Warning Aircraft Airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft have become crucial to all air force air operations whenever they are engaged...

Class 50s During the mid-1960s, British Rail (BR) was looking to introduce a high-powered diesel locomotive to improve services on the West Coast M...

British Rail Shunters: From Corporate Blue to Sectorisation The role of British Rail’s (BR) diesel shunters was increasingly threatened by the la...

B-17G Flying Fortress The B-17 Flying Fortress was conceived by the well-known US aviation designer and manufacturer Boeing during the 1930s, princ...

125: The Jet Dragon That Roared The 125 was originally conceived in the 1960s. Initially, the response in Europe to a business jet was lukewarm, bu...

707: Boeing’s First Jetliner The first widely used commercial jet, the Boeing 707, brought America into the ‘Jet Age’ of the late 1950s and created...

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which opened the 21st century, are over. The world is seeing new wars, using the latest technologies and new tac...

The US military stores more than 3,000 aircraft in the Arizona desert at AMARG, the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group facility. Ho...

Class 33s In 1960, the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company built a class of 98 locomotives, later to be designated Class 33s. They were c...

British Midland Airways British Midland Airways existed under different identities for more than 70 years, during which time it grew from a flying ...

Air France At 90: France’s Largest Airline Founded in 1933, Air France is that country’s largest airline with 211 aircraft at its disposal, compris...

German Starfighters: The Story in Colour, Introduction and Units The F-104 Starfighter was one of the most fascinating aircraft of the Cold War era...

Bradford Trolleybuses: The Early Years and Jubilee Celebrations Bradford trolleybuses were the first and the last of their kind in the UK – introdu...

Airliners of the 1990s The 1990s brought many important developments for the aviation world. The early jetliners now hauled cargo, and the new wid...

China Airlines The roots of China Airlines can be found in mainland China (the People’s Republic of China). After several attempts to set up nation...

Airliners of East and Central Asia With the largest landmass of all the continents, and a population of more than 4.6 billion people, Asia has a ma...

Airliners of South and Southeast Asia With the largest landmass of all the continents, and a population of more than 4.6 billion people, Asia has a...

F-111: Fort Worth Swinger At the time of its introduction into service, the F-111 was a revolutionary aircraft and was, without doubt, extremely p...

Devon’s Railways: North and East of the County Following the routes of the two main lines that enter Devon from the east, as well as exploring the ...

German Tanks of World War Two In World War Two, the German army deployed a wide variety of tanks in many different variants and with many forms of...

American Aviation: The First Half Century The story of American aviation in the first half of the 20th century is one of innovation, industry, comm...

East Coast Main Line Locomotive Haulage The East Coast Main Line (ECML) runs from London King’s Cross to Edinburgh Waverley, with branches to Leeds...

Avro 748 The 748 was a highly successful commercial airliner, and since the 1960s had been the go-to aircraft to open new air routes in many corner...

Class 66/0 In the late 1990s, most of the current locomotives in use on the national network were becoming very tired and evermore unreliable. It w...