FLYING A WWII PLANE

We get into the aircraft that trained pilots for World War II

It’s the summer of 1940 and the German Luftwaffe is preparing to launch a mass air attack on Southern England. If they are victorious, Britain will be open to a land invasion and Blitzkrieg will be upon the British Isles. Luckily, brave and skilled RAF pilots take down the Messerschmitts in their Spitfires and Hurricanes, so the German Operation Sea Lion never materialises. But how were our pilots so skilled at air-to-air combat? We went down to Goodwood Flying School in West Sussex for a lesson way up in the sky almost exactly 74 years after the battle. On a glorious day on the south coast, we will be over 1,200 metres (4,000 feet) in the air learning to fly like it’s 1940. The plane taking flight here is not…

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History of War Book of Combat Machines (Digital) - 1 Issue, History of War Book of Combat Machines 2016

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