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 last 48 hours have turned into a nightmare for the England &amp; Wales Cricket Board. The one thing that the board wanted to avoid from the off was a repeat of the near-farcical scenes which surrounded the
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&quot;You bums and ingrates! You disgraced your sport and country! Matador defense and half-hearted effort? At the Olympics? The Commies cheated us in &#39;72, and our college kids weren&#39;t good enough in &#39;88, but this is unacceptable. So carry your sorry fannies ...
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Air traffic controllers blamed a military pilot for a near miss over Morecambe Bay yesterday in which a plane carrying the Princess Royal had to go into a steep descent to avoid a Eurofighter Typhoon.
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This high-noon showdown was something of a let down as two trusty old gun-slingers fired nothing but blanks. There was plenty of sweat but precious little
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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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LONDON - Two British Royal Air Force (RAF) Tornado jets were scrambled for what was described as a &#39;detect, defer or destroy&#39; mission on Sunday following a bomb threat against a Greek Olympic Airlines passenger plane.
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A British pilot has been seriously wounded in an attack in Iraq, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) confirmed on Wednesday. The Army Air Corps Lynx helicopter came under small arms
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World's greatest LAN party is go A UK defence initiative hopes to link up military flight simulators in the US and UK , allowing British pilots to train for complex multi-aircraft missions together with their American counterparts across the pond.â¦
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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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Nazi-era board games are being auctioned this week, including a game in which points were given for bombing UK cities. But what were British children playing during WWII?
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A British cargo jet crashed in a fireball after its tail section apparently broke off during take-off from Nova Scotia today. All seven crew members - including two Britons â-ere killed.
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In the cockpit video released by the British newspaper the Sun, the two American A-10 pilots are using the call signs POPOV36 and POPOV35. MANILA HOTEL, MANILA34  and LIGHTNING34 are U.S. ground controllers talking with the pilots. The aircraft are maneuvering over British armored vehicles that are...
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LONDON, Feb. 6 -- A dramatic cockpit recording leaked to a British newspaper captures two American pilots reacting in horror and disbelief after one of them mistakenly fired on a convoy of British armored vehicles in Iraq. Told that an allied soldier has died, a pilot is heard saying, "I'm going to...
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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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England&#39;s performance against minnows the United States in their opening Rugby World Cup game was lambasted by British newspapers Sunday as &quot;diabolical&quot; and &quot;appallingly poor.&quot;
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&quot;Cypriot justice minister granted permission for the plane to land in Larnaca and mobilised bomb squads, bomb detectors and local civil aviation officials...&quot;. (BBC NEWS) - Israeli jet fighters have prevented