• Wartime fighter pilot Squadron Leader Leonard Feltham passed away on June 4, 2009, aged 87. Volunteering for the RAF at the age of 17, Feltham was a Spitfire pilot throughout most of his wartime service.
  [Times]
  
  
• Another sad departure in June was the death of Rex Shilton, former test pilot at Rolls-Royce.
  [Telegraph]
  
  
• Captain John Fairey, son of Sir Richard Fairey who founded the Fairey Aviation Company in 1915, died in flying accident on July 8 aged 74. He was an experienced warbird pilot and a vice-president of the Historic Aircraft Association. His vintage Percival Provost crashed in a field in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire.
  [Times]
  
  
• Unexploded World War II 250 kg bomb from the German Blitz still found after all these years. [24dash.com]
  
  
• It is soon time for the next Duxford Air Show on 5-6 September. Red Arrows will be there. [The Royston Crow]
  
  
• With three double-seater Spitfires TR Mk. IX operating currently in the UK, journalist tours in this aircraft became very popular this season. British TV comedian and journalist Dom Joly was one of them, and here is his account of the event.
  [Times]
  
  
• In Telegraph's series Britain at War, read memories of Sgt Denchfield, a Spitfire pilot who was shot down over France by German Ace Walter Oesau.
  [Telegraph]
  
  
• In a newer additon to the same series, another Telegraph reader recalls wartime fundraising for Spitfires and Lancasters.
  [Telegraph]
  
  
• Lastly, on an entirely different note. Telegraphs finds out that Nazis were close to building stealth bomber that could have changed course of history. I have my doubts about it :)
  [Telegraph]
  

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