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Alec Marsh

Aviation artist and former aerodynamics research engineer Rod Kirkby's impression of what a successful flight in the ...

Bullet planes, fatal crashes – and the top secret British project to break the sound barrier first

1 December 2022. By Alec Marsh

This woman made history with a hair-raising flight across the Atlantic. Why haven't more people heard of her?

26 October 2022. By Alec Marsh

‘Lost’ plans show Britain was preparing for a moon landing in 1968. What happened?

11 August 2022. By Alec Marsh

In 793AD, Vikings attacked Lindisfarne. Here's why it was so shocking

21 June 2022. By Alec Marsh

80 years ago this ‘killing machine’ took the war back to Germany. This is its story.

31 May 2022. By Alec Marsh

Black Arrow was the radical British rocket that was doomed before it flew. But it flew anyway

24 June 2021. By Alec Marsh

The space story that wasn't really about space: Why Tom Wolfe wrote The Right Stuff

22 October 2020. By Alec Marsh