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57 nights of bombing, and then came 15th september, a crucial moment when two massive attacks by the german air force were successfully defended by the british royal air force. but it was not without significant losses. 1,497 pilots and aircrew died during it. it was the battle about which winston churchill famously said, "never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few". and the names of those who fought and died will, as they have been over the decades, honoured here at the abbey. the roll of honour will be paraded along with the colours, the flags of the squa...

Its wing span was more than a hundred feet wide. it could fly faster than previous bombers, it could fly further. it could hold tons more bombs than the army had been able to put in a plane like this before. but on october 30th, that boeing test model number 299, the 299 had an ace test pilot named ployer peter hill at the controls. it was being evaluated by the army to see if they were going to invest in this huge, amazing new plane that could do so much more than any other bomber had before. and in that test, the plane crashed. took off, it got its nose up way too high. basically went straig...

To get that contract. boeing was almost kaput as a company at that point. they basically bet the whole future of their company on trying to win this army air corps contract. and what they built was a whole new approach. instead of two engines, it had four. it was huge. its wing spand was more than a hundred feet wide. it could fly faster than previous bombers, it could fly further. it could hold tons more bombs than the army had been able to put in a plane like this before. but on october 30th, that boeing test model number 299, the 299 had an ace test pilot named ployer peter hill at the cont...