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Bismarck: 24 Hours to Doom (80th Anniversary Edition)

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Iain Ballantyne, Agora Books 2021 Bismarck: 24 Hours to Doom is an intensely readable account of the final days of the titular battleship, centring the voices of those who were […]

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HMS Ark Royal, WW2 History

The First Jet Carrier Landing – On This Day (or not?)

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On this day in 1945, the first jet-powered landing on an aircraft carrier took place. Or did it? Ever since that time, there has been a debate over whether the […]

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Postwar history, Prototypes, Test flying

Dauntless: The Battle of Midway review

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Today (21 October 2019) is the release date for ‘Dauntless: The Battle of Midway’ on DVD, Blu-Ray and digital download/streaming, and as a rare example of a feature film about […]

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WW2 History

Malta convoys novella ‘Harpoon’ published

June 6, 2019by navalairhistory Leave a comment

I am pleased to announce the publication of the first of three novellas from Sharpe publishing, set during the Malta convoys in the summer of 1942, when the island was […]

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Historical fiction, WW2 History

Fleet Air Arm Veterans Honoured at Navy Wings event

November 5, 2018by navalairhistory 4 Comments

On 21 September, twelve Fleet Air Arm veterans were honoured at Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton, at an event dedicated to the immortal Fairey Swordfish and the men and women […]

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Fleet Air Arm, Interwar history, WW2 History

Forgotten naval prototype aircraft

September 5, 2018by navalairhistory 3 Comments

Matthew Willis is currently writing a series of blogposts for the Global Maritime History site about the weird, wonderful, and not-so-wonderful aircraft that were designed and tested for naval service […]

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History and its lessons, Interwar history, Pre-war fleet air arm, Prototypes, Test flying

HMS Queen Elizabeth – more trials, fewer tribulations

June 21, 2018by navalairhistory Leave a comment

The Royal Navy continues its preparations to bring the new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers into service. Today, another major milestone was passed with the first refuelling at sea from one […]

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HMS Queen Elizabeth, Postwar history
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New series of blogs on Global Maritime History

May 14, 2018by navalairhistory Leave a comment

The first of a series of new blogposts by Naval Air History author Matthew Willis was published today on the Global Maritime History site. The series takes a look at […]

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Prototypes, Test flying, WW1 History

The first jet carrier landing

December 4, 2017by navalairhistory 3 Comments

On 3 December 1945, Lieutenant Commander Eric Melrose ‘Winkle’ Brown (later Captain) made the first carrier landings and take-offs with a jet aircraft in history, when he flew de Havilland […]

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Fleet Air Arm, Postwar history, Prototypes, Test flying

In Memoriam, Sub Lt David Mitchell RNVR and Cdr David Hamilton RN

November 12, 2017by navalairhistory Leave a comment

One of the best aspects of writing about historical naval aviation sadder is meeting deeply impressive people who have contributed to that history. One of the saddest aspects is the […]

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Fleet Air Arm, Obituary, Postwar history

HMS Queen Elizabeth

August 16, 2017by navalairhistory Leave a comment

At approximately seven o’clock on the morning of 16 August 2017, the Royal Navy’s newest and largest aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, entered her home port of Portsmouth for the […]

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Fleet Air Arm, HMS Queen Elizabeth, Postwar history

Falklands Air War – Aviation Xtended podcasts

July 12, 2017by navalairhistory Leave a comment

I was delighted to take part in two recent episodes of the aeronautical podcast Aviation Xtended to mark the 35th anniversary of the end of the 1982 Falklands conflict. This […]

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Falklands conflict, Fleet Air Arm, Postwar history

New Fairey Flycatcher book published

July 26, 2016by navalairhistory Leave a comment

My book on the Fairey Flycatcher published by MMP Books is now available. For more information and to buy, see the MMP site Reviews include: ‘Matthew Willis has delivered a […]

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Interwar history, Pre-war fleet air arm

Naval aviation in the Battle of Jutland

May 31, 2016by navalairhistory 1 Comment

The Battle of Jutland, fought a century ago, is principally remembered as the biggest clash of battleships ever – one of the last hurrahs of the mighty surface fleets before […]

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WW1 History

Captain Eric Brown – a personal reflection

February 25, 2016by navalairhistory 4 Comments

There’s very little I can add to the many tributes to the incomparable Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown, written by those far better placed than me to assess the great man’s […]

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Fleet Air Arm, Obituary, Test flying

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The first of three novellas from Sharpe Books was released in June 2019 – ‘Harpoon’ chronicles the struggles of a Sea Hurricane pilot on the vital Malta convoys of 1942. Available from Amazon

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