Did it ever really happen? On these pleasant Spring days, it is difficult to recall with clarity that only a few short months ago men were fighting in the frigid climes of the South Atlantic. Watching the horror of the Sheffield burning, of a Mirage’s final second, of the injured from the Sir Galahad, with

The world’s longest-established aircraft manufacturer (1909) and at one time the producer of some of the largest airframes to grace the skies, Short Brothers of Belfast nowadays specialise in aircraft at the opposite end of the airliner spectrum. Since 1974 when the prototype Shorts 330 (officially designated the SD3-30) first took wing the company has