Airspeed horsa glider

None of us plans to be caught in a gale, but if it happens then both the boat and the crew must cope. Jake Kavanagh speaks to Jester Challenge skippers and asks how they get ready for stormy weather

I took an interest in the Wolseley Hornet Special when I learnt that my father had acquired one as his first car, just after the Second World War. His Eustace Watkins-bodied two-seater was long gone b

The failed high-altitude fighter that proved crucial to the liberation of Europe as a deadly ground-attack aircraft

Early on 8 November 1942, Adolf Hitler’s special train was en route from Berlin to Munich when it was stopped at a small station in the Thuringian Forest to receive an urgent message from the Foreign

Your interesting feature about the role of medieval warhorses in shaping British history (August) reminded me of a subsequent occasion in which horsepower became a critical factor. In April 1660, with

Losing Fisher & Ludlow (which had made monocoque bodies for the Standard 8 and 10) to the British Motor Corporation led Standard-Triumph to choose separate-chassis construction for its next small car.