Battle of Britain pilots actually crap shots
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Kill/loss ratio 'unimpressive', historian claims A historian has claimed Fighter Command's finest - "The Few" who legendarily administered Goering's Luftwaffe a bloody nose during the Battle of Britain - were actually often woefully undertrained and incapable of hitting a barn door with a banjo.â¦
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The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. files to take over pensions for United's pilots. Sound good? Not so fast.
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'HyFly' crashes, fails to burn An innovative hypersonics programme has suffered a failure, with a prototype scramjet missile failing to perform properly and crashing into the Pacific after less than a minute in the air.â¦
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BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq - On stages in war zones like this one, Bob Hope used to wag a golf club, affecting nonchalance as he poked fun at pompous military brass and making light of the dangers around him.
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A bomber pilot in World War II says he was shot down while being escorted by the Tuskegee Airmen, an account that supports a recent report by two historians who say the black fighter group, contrary to legend, did lose at least a few bombers to fire from enemy aircraft.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A bomber pilot from World War II says he was shot down while being escorted by Tuskegee Airmen, an account that supports a recent report by two historians that the famed black fighter group, contrary to legend, did lose at least a few bombers to fire from enemy aircraft.
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INDIAN takeaway ordered from a British restaurant by Barmy Army fans in Australia will be destroyed when it arrives by plane.Comment
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U.S. and British officials denied trying to bury details of a 'friendly fire' incident on Tuesday after a classified cockpit video was leaked showing U.S. pilots weeping after mistakenly killing a British soldier in Iraq.
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The RAF military planes that escorted the Greek Olympic Airlines Airbus until it made an emergency landing at Stansted Airport in Essex, east of London, had orders to shoot it down in the case of a bomb attack or hijack, according to British newspapers
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Six British soldiers died today when their helicopter crashed during a joint exercise with Czech forces. The Lynx went down at about 1 pm (1200 BST) near Namest nad Oslavou, 112 miles south-east of Prague, said
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LONDON - A British military pilot who used an army helicopter to deliver a pizza to his girlfriend has been disciplined, the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday.  The Lynx helicopter was on a map-reading training exercise in eastern England on Jan.
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Two members of an RAF crew are killed and one injured after their aircraft crashes on a training exercise.
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Slow and cheap ... but deadly. Germany's V-1 kills over 6,000 Londoners during World War II.
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And don't waste my time with your roadside bombs One of the US air force's most senior pilots has cast doubt on the usefulness of unmanned aircraft.â¦
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Top tips from Auntie Those among you looking for some top tips on how to survive an air crash could do worse than consult the Beeb's handy guide.â¦
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DRESDEN, Germany -- From an altitude of 10,000 feet, Sergeant Navigator Harold Nash looked down from the cockpit of the British fighter plane as it dropped incendiary bombs on German cities and towns during World War II.
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Probably came from Coalition source, not insurgents A film showing the naked body of a British airman was offered for sale on eBay, it emerged yesterday. The distasteful footage has since been removed from the online listings, and the police alerted.â¦