Engineering historian Dr Nina Baker looks at the technical contributions by women mathematicians and engineers to aeronautical engineering development in the 20th century, including the design of the R101 airship and solving the crash problems of the De Havilland Comet.
Retired neurosurgeon John Firth’s chance encounter with John Britten and Desmond Norman resulted in their meeting Willie Logan, whose company in Muir of Ord were building the Tay Road Bridge and needed to fly welders from the Highlands to Dundee. ...
Naval historian David Hobbs reflects on the career and life of Squadron Commander Dunning, the first man to land an aircraft onto a moving ship - in Scapa Flow in 1917.
