Jan Machálek spent the autumn of 1941 at the No. 3 EFTS (Elementary Flying Fraining School). In early 1942, he was among the first Czechoslovaks to go to Canada for further training to No. 31 EFTS & No. 34 SFTS (Service Flying Training School). In the summer of 1942, he had to...
Night Fighters: Luftwaffe and RAF Air Combat over Europe, 1939-1945 by Colin D. Heaton and Anne-Marie Lewis. Naval Institute Press (http://www.usni.org), 291 Wood Road, Annapolis, Maryland 21402, 2008, 224 pages, $27.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-59114-360-4. During World War II, ...
He was to receive the Distinguished Service Order decoration – not once, but twice and well as the Distinguished Flying Cross decoration, again not once – but twice. Much has been written on Sailor Malan on this website, so for an in-depth profile on this most exceptional South African ...
fitted to a specially built Gloster E.28/39 airframe, and the plane’s maiden flight took place on May 15, 1941. The British government took over Power Jets Ltd. in 1944, by which time Britain’s Gloster Meteor jet aircraft were in service with the RAF, intercepting German V-1 rockets...