Edward Kurdziel gets my prize for about the coolest hobby loss case ever. He restored a World War II airplane making it flyable. It was a Fairey Firefly. The Fairey Firefly was a carrier-based ...

U-turn • 1950 Fairey Firefly. 1950 Fairey Firefly Would Have You Believe It Fought in Korea. Published: 13 Dec 2020, 09:09 UTC • By: Daniel Patrascu. 6 photos. Photo: Platinum Fighters.

The Firefly, a British long-range reconnaissance fighter, first flew in 1941 and entered service aboard the aircraft carriers of the British Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm in 1943—a year later ...

Two people have died in a plane crash at an air show in Cambridgeshire. The two occupants of the two-seat Fairey Firefly were killed when the aircraft came down during a display flight, a fire ...

The 50-year-old Fairey Firefly was being displayed at Duxford airfield in Cambridgeshire by a pilot and navigator from the Royal Navy's historic flight section.

The Ministry of Defence has started an investigation after two men were killed when an historic aeroplane crashed at an air show. Lieutenant Commander Bill Murton, 45, and Neil Rix, 29, were crewing ...

He flew a Fairey Firefly in a record-breaking carrier attack in the Korean War and became the youngest captain on the Navy’s active list Captain Dickie Bates, who has died aged 91, was a Fleet ...

A former Royal Navy plane has crashed during an air show at Duxford in eastern England on Saturday local time, killing the two people on board, rescue services said. The plane, a 1949 Fairey ...

Thousands of horrified spectators watched as the the 50-year-old Fairey Firefly nose-dived to the ground while performing a manoeuvre at Duxford airfield in Cambridgeshire on Saturday.

In 60 years after the crash of two navy Fairey Firefly aircraft over Jervis Bay, which cost the lives of two young flyers, North Nowra diver Greg Stubbs has found wreckage of one of the missing ...

The Fairey Firefly aircraft just before it crashed A pilot crashed a vintage plane at an air show while attempting an acrobatic manoeuvre that was probably beyond his capabilities, an inquest heard.