Thanks for the pre-order Rudy. I work around eVTOL and there are lots of challenges. It's not in my book, but someone should write one about it all.

It needs human interpretation.

Lots more like 'Stiletto' in my forthcoming book www.penguin.co.uk/books/468411...

Some of them have Harrier pilots working for them, and one at least has a supersonic jump jet designer.

All can read about some truly new/old V/STOL concepts in my forthcoming book www.penguin.co.uk/books/468411...

Nice to see this out.

Much more archive goodness in my forthcoming book www.penguin.co.uk/books/468411...

More such stories in my forthcoming book www.penguin.co.uk/books/468411...

Great to see my article on aviation archives and innovation in this month's Aerospace.

Like Firefox, except you had to think in a Brizzle aaaccent.

The article gives a taste of my forthcoming book too. Pre-orders now open. www.penguin.co.uk/books/468411...

3/3. Hawker's test pilot, P.W.S 'George' Bulman, didn’t have flying gloves, but he had borrowed some motorcycle gauntlets and decided to go for it anyway.

The rest is history, hidden for 90 years.

I have a feeling George was not too bothered by what he had done.

Pilots, eh?

2/3. Neither Camm, or the 'man from the ministry', were present. To calm them down, the Hurricane's second flight, on the 6th November 1935, has gone down in history as the official first flight.

That was when all the bigwigs were at Brooklands to see it fly.

Yes.

It's not the mock-up, it's the prototype.