It was meant to be a treasured wartime gift, but when the Blitz claimed its owner it remained untouched in a loft for 70 years. But this toy aeroplane, which was given to a youngster in 1941 but was ...

In 1940, I was seven years old. It was a beautiful sunny day and there were a lot of planes in the sky - small, like toy planes - and my father said "There is all hell going on up there." We found out ...

In the short time between the first flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk in 1903 and the Battle of Britain that started in July of 1940, the airplane had evolved from a rickety DIY creation to ...