Until recently the family of R.C.W de Courcy knew little of his career in the RAF. A Dubliner, he had been a navigator in a Hampden bomber which was shot down in the Heligoland Bight in February 1942.

Tributes have been paid to three airmen who died when their bomber crashed during the Second World War. The bomber's pilot, Sergeant Jack Ottaway, from Watton, as well as Pilot Officer Archie Kerr and ...

At around 11:25am on 1 January 1940, an RAF 7 Squadron Handley Page Hampden P1260 About links 1 on a navigational exercise from its base at Upper Heyford struck, in bad weather, the mist-shrouded ...

On this day in aviation history, 70 years ago (August 25, 1955), the Handley Page HPR.7 Dart Herald made its first flight. This British-designed passenger aircraft, powered by twin Rolls-Royce Dart ...

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