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'On Laughter-Silvered Wings.' Art by Keith Ferris, depicting John Gillespie Magee’s Supermarine Spitfire.
RAF 24 Squadron, SE5a. Pilot William Lambert - 'Attack from out the sun' - art by Bob Cunningham.
15 August 1951. Douglas Aircraft Company test pilot William Barton 'Bill' Bridgeman flew USN/NACA Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket, Bu. No. 37974, to a world record altitude of 79,494 ft. at Edwards Air Force Base, Southern California.
12 August 1942. Operation Pedestal, a British operation to carry supplies to the island of Malta. Art by Mark Postlethwaite.
10 August 1896. Died from injuries sustained the previous day. Otto Lilienthal, the first man to make well-documented, repeated, successful gliding flights. His glider N°11 stalled over the artificial hill near Lichterfelde during his fourth flight on 9 August.
7 August 1951. Douglas Aircraft Company test pilot William Barton Bridgeman flew the U.S. Navy/NACA/Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket to a record speed of Mach 1.88 at Muroc Dry Lake (later Edwards Air Force Base) in the high desert of southern California.
S.E.5a of Captain Grinnell-Milne, 1919, showing the inverted, open V stripes of 56 Squadron.
Captain Harold Mellings’ second victory, 30 September 1917. – Art by James Field.
February 1918, 56 Squadron SE5a, Lieutenant Kenneth William Junor MC - by Michael Turner.