Tribute to Sgt Ray Shaw, RAAF by Ivan Berryman. (AP) SPE6

Tribute to Sgt Ray Shaw, RAAF by Ivan Berryman. (AP) SPE6B0483AP. Tribute to Sgt Ray Shaw, RAAF by Ivan Berryman. Whilst flying Curtiss Kittyhawk AK726 (O) on 22nd February 1942, Sgt Ray Shaw, assisted by Sgts Beste, Shillabeer and Kierath in similar aircraft, became the first pilot to score a victory for 450 Sqn RAAF, sending down a Ju. 88A4 south east of Gazala, Libya. The German aircraft, coded 7A+NH from 1.(F)121, suffered terminal damage to an engine and crash landed in the desert, where the crew were

following a vital sortie against Italian shipping at the start of the Battle of Cape Matapan in march 1941

Screw-ups within the Army and a lack of manufacturing equipment delayed the start of production until 1943

26th February 1991 by David Pentland Two days into Operation Desert Storm (G+2)

By the end of the day

In early 1943 the 86th and 27th Fighter Bomber Groups of the 12th Air Force began flying A-36s out of Northern Africa

One of Virgin Atlantic's fleet of 19 Airbus A340-600s

Turnberry Golf Course by Fraser Shaw (P) Original painting by Fraser Shaw

The leadership qualities and grim determination of Squadron Leader J R Baldwin was seldom better demonstrated that when he led a small flight of Hawker Typhoons against a force of some thirty Focke-Wulf Fw

Ward spotted a Focke-Wulf Fw

Winter Homecoming

and is about to begin her journey across the Solent to Portsmouth in the summer of 1968

Wearing her unusual black and white disruptive colour scheme