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Blog post on Aviation, Flying stories, pilot interviews, design and more. Hush-Kit is the alternative aviation magazine that provides news, satire and history from 25,000 feet. Hush-Kit is jam-packed with exclusive articles, news, art and gossip- all from an aeronautical perspective.
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CH-CH-CHANGES: THE TEN REINVENTIONS of a Spitfire In an attempt to create an article concept so complex that even the editor doesn’t really understand it, Hush-Kit teamed up with our in-house number cruncher Eddie Rippeth to compare marks of Spitfire to periods of David Bowie’s life. To further bewilder you, we have added the number ..read more
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5d ago
Romania fathered the modern aeroplane, created the first propellerless powered aeroplane, contributed a major theory to aerodynamics – and even had a flying queen. We look at some exciting flying machines made by a maverick nation that always did things in its own distinctive way. 10. IAR 317 Airfox You’ve heard of Airwolf, now get ..read more
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2w ago
I hope you like jamming too In my flying career I was fortunate enough to fly Dassault Falcon 20’s for UK-based company F R Aviation (part of Cobham PLC). The operation existed to provide Electronic Warfare training to the RAF, Royal Navy and other forces around NATO. Utilising a fleet of heavily modified Falcons we ..read more
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2w ago
Delighted to say! You fabulous book is has just been released in North America! Here’s the US link – https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-hush-kit-book-of-warplanes/20294418?ean=9781800180949 Here’s the Canadian link https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-hush-kit-book-of-warplanes/9781800180949.html ..read more
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3w ago
£300 million funding has been approved for a massive building in the shape of Britain’s famous Spitfire fighter jet of World War II. Dubbed the Spithedral the building will celebrate Southampton’s contribution to world history. Southhampton councilman Eric Pulp has been campaigning for the project for over ten years and is delighted at the decision ..read more
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3w ago
Oh god no! World War II was the most depressingly boring event in history. As civilians joyously ate powdered eggs and sipped ersatz coffee they watched their world torn to pieces by a shambolic swarm of tiresome flying machines. Here are just 10 of the most boring of these lugubrious sky vultures. 10. Curtiss P-40 ..read more
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3w ago
We have often knocked the Britain’s Cold War Javelin interceptor as a sluggish mess. For the sake of balance, we asked former Tornado pilot and author Michael Napier to defend Gloster’s ‘Flying Flat-iron’. Firstly, the Javelin was the first RAF aircraft to be designed from the outset as a night/ all-weather interceptor; all previous night ..read more
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We spoke to Ron Smith, former Head of Future Projects at Westland Helicopters to get his first thoughts. Revealed this week on Chinese social media was a new Chinese attack helicopter. We spoke to Ron Smith, former Head of Future Projects at Westland Helicopters to get his first thoughts. “It’s a development of the Z-20 ..read more
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10. Sud-Est SE.200 Amphitrite ‘L’oie de l’épinette’ (1942) Flying boats opened up the world in the 1930s. Who needed airports if you could land on water? There weren’t many large airports, so flying boats – in all their grand glamour – led the aeroplane travel revolution. Now air travel routes linking North America, Europe, South America ..read more
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Hello! Hope you’re all well and dusting off your bikinis and thongs in anticipation of the airshow season! Time to light the afterburners and raise the champagne glasses as The Hush-Kit Book of Warplanes Vol III effort is now officially launched! Pre-order your copy from the tasty selection of levels here and make this brilliant lavish well-informed entertaining coffee-table book ..read more