Friday, 19 September 2025

Battle of Britain Capel-le-Ferne Memorial flypast, 19 September 2025, John Vasco's Zerstörer at the Battle of Britain museum 27 September 2025

 




The flypast at the Capel-le-Ferne National Memorial to the Few for Battle of Britain Day - 15 September - was postponed last weekend due to the unseasonal high winds over southern England.  Yesterday though was sunny and warm and the BBMF managed to put up three Spitfires and a Hurricane for a tour of some Battle of Britain landmark sites in Kent including Manston and Capel.  The Griffon PR Spit displayed over the Memorial on the cliff-top between Folkestone and Dover. Pictures by John Frackleton.




Meanwhile a few miles away at the Kent Battle of Britain museum in Hawkinge - which houses the most important collection of airframes and artefacts from the Battle of Britain - Pen & Sword author Andy Singleton has recently launched his new book on modelling Battle of Britain fighters. Andy has published a number of modelling 'how-to' manuals for Pen & Sword and builds models for a living, so this volume is well worth looking at.



Also taking place at the Battle of Britain museum next week (27 September) is the 'official' launch of the new Vasco/Cornwell volume on the Me 110 in 1940.

" Zerstörer: The Combat History of the Me 110 in 1940" is published by Wingleader. Authored by John Vasco & Peter Cornwell this extensively revised and re-worked reissue of the earlier 'classic' has 300 pages with around 500 photos and will be available in hardback at £55..


Also on this blog;

Sir Hugh Dowding bust unveiled at the Capel Battle of Britain Memorial

September 15 Battle of Britain Day - German fighter pilots and the 'myth'

'The story behind the book' - an interview with leading Battle of Britain author John Vasco