Captain Crisp
Sqn Ldr Edwin Rowland Moon Southampton’s aviation pioneer and war hero
A real Southampton ‘local’, Edwin Rowland Moon was born 8th June 1886 in Cranbury Avenue, Southampton. His father, also Edwin, was a...
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Captain Crisp
Nov 20, 20204 min read
The Balloon Goes Up!
Many people living on Hampshire’s coast will still remember the proliferation of barrage balloons that flew both on the coast itself, and...
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Captain Crisp
Nov 13, 20203 min read
Southampton's Mystery Nazi Bomber
During the late summer of 1940, Cunliffe-Owen at Eastleigh [Southampton] Airport were busily repairing Hurricanes and Spitfires which had...
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Captain Crisp
Nov 10, 20205 min read
Hampshire's Space Rockets
The ‘flights of fantasy’ stories of Jules Verne, H G Wells and other early science fiction writers fired the imaginations of many a young...
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Captain Crisp
Aug 10, 202010 min read
Southampton's Fighter Plane Hero
Eric James Brindley ‘Nic’ Nicholson holds the distinction of not only being the only Fighter Command VC of the Second World War, but the...
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Captain Crisp
Jun 25, 20205 min read
Secret Files – Hampshire’s ‘Luftwaffe’
Picture the scene – a sunny early September day in 1942. Young Rachel and Eddie Jones are playing in their garden near Romsey. They hear...
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Captain Crisp
May 21, 20203 min read
BRITISH POWER BOATS AND RAF HYTHE
The Solent area, whilst famous for the aviation history of the various companies along the coast and on the Isle of Wight, will always be...
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Captain Crisp
May 11, 20208 min read
Secret Files – The Cunliffe-Owen Story
Most of Southampton and Eastleigh’s residents will have been familiar for many years with the imposing size of the Ford motor plant –...
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Captain Crisp
Apr 28, 20206 min read
Secret Files: Cierva Autogyros
Many readers have seen the 1967 James Bond film ‘You Only Live Twice’, starring Sean Connery as Bond, and one of Bond’s most famous...
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Captain Crisp
Apr 13, 20207 min read
Secret Files :The Spitfire floatplanes
The German invasion of Norway in April 1940, and the now seemingly unstoppable advance of her armies across Europe began, it seemed...
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Captain Crisp
Apr 7, 20205 min read
Secret Files: Supermarine's 'Destroyer'
20th April 1942 – a huge military parade on a bright, clear spring morning is being held along Unter der Linden in central Berlin to...
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Captain Crisp
Mar 30, 202011 min read
Solent Rocket Fighters
After brief combat action between the Allies and the Messerschmitt 163 Komet rocket fighter during the latter part of the Second World...
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Captain Crisp
Mar 26, 20207 min read
The Spitfire and the Battle of Britain
By the outbreak of the Second World War, the RAF had 187 Spitfires in service with ten Squadrons, although in comparison, the similar...
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Captain Crisp
Mar 25, 20207 min read
Our Experimental Jet Flying Boat - the Saunders Roe SRA/1
0530 15 September 1950 – HMS Unicorn, off Inchon, Korea. Lt Cdr Al Jones, CO of 848 FAA Squadron, signals for engine starts on his...
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