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.

Also, it, and the P1, were a Nazi concept. youtu.be/KJ0bYR3sMcE?...