The Brabazon - the name evokes the immediate post-war optimism of civil aviation. The giant airliner was built by Bristol Aircraft in 1949 to cross the Atlantic and serve the empire. However, the plane proved to be a commercial failure when airlines felt that it was too large and expensive to be useful. Large and luxurious, it carried only 60-80 ......

A day by day account of the fight by the pilots of Fighter Command against the threat of the V1 flying bombs in 1944, using the pilots' and survivors' own words to describe the struggle in the air and the horror on the ground.