Despite exploring the concept of aircraft carriers and closely scrutinising the captured ‘Graf Zeppelin’ Germany carrier, military doctrine past the Iron Curtain never shared the same fascination with the large and iconic carrier battlegroups as the West. Whilst the United States had established itself as the leading power of carrier …
The Schneider Trophy – How Air Racing Shaped The WW2 Fighter
It’s hard to imagine now, in an age of social media celebrities and millionaire sportsmen, but aerial racing was once the craze to take Europe by storm. The Schneider Trophy was born not long after the first successful aircraft, the conception of Jacques Schneider a rich Frenchman with a passion …