The Doctor and the Pilot Who Saved the Eyesight of Millions
Harold Ridley successfully implanted the world’s first artificial intraocular lens.
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Hurricane or Spitfire? Which was Britain’s Best WWII Fighter?
With all due love and respect to the Spitfire (including my personal experience sitting in the cockpit of one), the numbers don’t lie. Winner: Hawker Hurricane.
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The Doctor and the Pilot Who Saved the Eyesight of Millions
On Aug. 15, 1940, Royal Air Force pilot Gordon Cleaver scrambled into the cockpit of his Hawker Hurricane and lifted into the sky. A wave of Luftwaffe bombers was thundering across the English ...