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

Soviet-Era Airliners When the Soviet Union fell in December 1991, there were close to 3,500 assorted Soviet-built airliners that could be deemed o...

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...

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

Seattle Stratotanker Veterans: Boeing KC-135 Variants The first KC-135A was rolled out on July 18, 1956 – nearly 70 years ago – and, amazingly, hal...

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...

Iran Air: Flying the Homa The first Iranian airline was started in 1924 by German Hugo Junkers. When the Junkers company closed in 1936, Iranian mi...

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

Russian Air Power Russia has an extensive history of domestic military aircraft manufacture and a vast array of air power at its disposal. Despite ...

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...

Fokker F.27 Friendship Versatile and endlessly adaptable, the Fokker F.27 Friendship is one of the most successful turboprop airliners of the post-...

Travis Air Force Base: The USAF’s Transport Superbase in Action Travis Air Force Base, situated in Fairfield, California, is the “Gateway to the Pa...

RAF Transport Aircraft From their modest origins with BE.2c and Vickers Victoria biplanes delivering food and ammunition in the Mesopotamian desert...

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...

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...

Railways in Northern Lincolnshire: Four Decades of Change Set against the contrasting rural and industrial scenery of northern Lincolnshire, this b...

Emirates Established four decades ago, Emirates is now the largest airline in the Middle East and widely recognised as one of the safest in the wor...

Japan’s Railways: Hokkaido to Chubu Japan’s first railway opened between Tokyo and Yokohama in 1872. Its railways were nationalised in the early 19...

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...

Irish Railways: The Last 60 Years By the end of the 1950s, steam had already mostly disappeared from passenger work in the Republic of Ireland, yet...

Republic F-105 Thunderchief: Operations in Southeast Asia When the Air War against North Vietnam began in earnest on March 2, 1965, the United Stat...

London Bus Routes One by One: 301–969 In times of old, the numbers 300–499 were restricted to the green buses of the London Transport Country Area,...

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

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...