To this day, I cannot stand the glutinous, faux-fruit taste and slippery lack of texture of Jell-O desserts. There was a time many years ago though when I just couldn’t get enough of the stuff…

A seemingly desperate scheme to fly an entire fighter wing to Normandy in gliders proves to be practicable... though luckily for the author and his fellow Spitfire pilots of 401 Squadron it was never put to the test on operations…

When the Japanese finally surrendered without conditions, battered, nearly hollowed out and war-weary people around the world stood in disbelief …

We live in a world connected by electronic means of communication. It is indeed a blessing. But it is also a loss. Let me explain. My wife and I stay connected to our son in London, England through Skype, FaceTime, smartphone texts…

Young men and woman who are killed on active service are said to have paid the “supreme sacrifice”. I guess that is true. There's not much more than you can give than that. But I posit that the greatest sacrifice …

There is a story told on the sides of every aircraft of the Second World War. It’s there in visual code written in worn and tired war paint, easily interpreted by those who speak this language of history.

The name, sight and sound of the powerful, piscine and stingray-like Avro Vulcan, after all these years, still generates a thrill in my gut that starts somewhere down low below the belt and rises up to fill the heart. The chest-pounding concussion…

As reliable as Canada geese migrating, every year on a weekend of July, the aviation community heads for the little town of Geneseo, New York, home of the 1941 Historical Air Group (HAG). …

In 1947, Pan American World Airways began the first regularly scheduled “Round-the-World” passenger service. Each day, a flight would depart from the East Coast (New York or Philadelphia), heading east towards Europe and another on …

Harry Hannah was a Spitfire pilot during the Second World War. His story is like that of so many men and women of character from that time—it is both ordinary and extraordinary. It is ordinary in the sense that strange, extreme and …

In a world where “leadership” is commoditized and sold to us by life coaches, in professional development workshops and self-help books, one thing is clear — true leaders are born, not certified. Of course, certain aspects of leadership can be quantified and shared and even learned, but the true apex leader is one who …

Initialement prévue comme une série en deux parties, ce récit des expériences d’un homme pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale s’étendra désormais sur trois épisodes. C’est l’histoire d’un pilote ordinaire de Spitfire à la toute fin…

Le temps était couvert et frais, mais le vent était stable sur la piste et le moment est venu.

De tous les anciens combattants de la Seconde Guerre mondiale que j’ai rencontrés et au sujet desquels j’ai écrit au fil des ans, celui que je connaissais le mieux, que j’aimais le plus et que je manquais le plus profondément…

En 1999, les membres du Comox Air Force Museum, sur l’île de Vancouver, ont entamé un projet de 10 ans visant à reconstruire un Supermarine Spitfire IX à partir des cendres d’une ancienne épave de l’armée de l’air sud-africaine. Une fois terminé, ce Spitfire…

Ils sont peu nombreux les pilotes de chasse de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale qui ont survécu aux missions les plus dangereuses d’attaques au sol à bord de ces avions les plus coriaces, solides, rapides, mais surtout dangereux…