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Flying boats have been a familiar sight in the Solent since the dawn of aviation. Two of Britain”s major manufactures, Saunders-Roe and Supermarine, were based in Cowes and Woolston respectively. …

The first ex-military jet flew in Britain in the late 1960s, restored by Jet Heritage of Bournemouth. The company made a successful business out of restoring the complicated military airframes and …

Wessex – for our purposes Dorset and Wiltshire, along with the western parts of Hampshire and Berkshire – has been part of Britain’s aviation industry for over a hundred years. In his comprehensive …

Bournemouth Airport was first opened as RAF Hurn on 1 August 1941, one of the bases established by the RAF to counter the Luftwaffe presence across the Channel in northern France. RAF Hurn would go …

George Errington was a well-known and popular test pilot from 1935 to 1955. His name appeared frequently in aviation magazines of the time and he ranks with the likes of Cunningham, Duke, Falk and …

Often regarded as a quiet holiday county, in fact Dorset has many aviation connections. As early as 1908 Bleriots were being built by Bournemouth businessmen, the Royal Navy undertook first landing …

Dorset has always been an important railway county, catering for holidaymakers heading to the resorts of Bournemouth, Swanage and Weymouth. As part of the mid-nineteenth-century desire for railways …