There are labours of love — and then there’s the extraordinary, painstaking and ultimately exhilarating restoration of the world’s first strategic bomber. ‘It was a completely mad thing to do, and has ...
100 years ago as the Western Front in World War One ground to a bloody halt in battles like Passchendaele, the British Royal Air Force launched the world's first strategic bomber. Now a century on a ...
This rare archive footage shows the world's first strategic bomber - the Airco DH9 (de Havilland). It's hard to imagine the modern battlefield without precision strategic airstrikes but back in 1917 ...
A century ago, planes just like it took off from Duxford on bombing raids over German cities. In an open cockpit, the pilot and gunner would zoom over their targets, initially flinging out their bombs ...
This rare archive footage shows the world's first strategic bomber - the Airco DH9 (de Havilland). It's hard to imagine the modern battlefield without precision strategic airstrikes but back in 1917 ...