In August 2013 I updated our Warbird enthusiasts on the progress being made on the restoration project currently underway on the Bristol Beaufort at Caboolture Qld, Australia. Further activity has now occurred on the Beaufort and it’s time to provide an update. The full set of movable tail surfaces has now been fully rebuilt, covered, painted and refitted […]
Australian Warbirds, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
In September 2013, I visited the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton UK, to catch up on recent events and progress at this magnificent Warbird Aviation Museum. The museum is located within the RNAS Yeovalton site and is quite a large museum both physically and in aircraft numbers. It is the largest Naval Aircraft collection […]
Aviation Museums, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Classic Air Force is a new Warbird Museum complex located at Newquay airport in Cornwall UK. I visited the museum in September 2013 to review their Warbird collection and displays. The day was unfortunately quite miserable and raining, but this did not deter me from fully exploring the splendid aircraft collection. The Aviation Museum is in […]
Aviation Museums, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
The Volandia Aviation Museum is located adjacent to the Malpensa International airport near Milan Italy. The objective of the Museum of Aeronautics Foundation is to create Volandia , the largest Italian aviation museum. The prospect of exploring an Italian Warbird museum was too good to pass up, so I visited the Museum during August 2013. The site […]
Aviation Museums, Historic Aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
It has been some time since I attended an air show at Duxford UK and chose Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th September 2013 as the ideal days to review the Warbird collections and air displays. The weather was mixed with some cloud, however Duxford turned on its usual fantastic displays of Warbirds with good access […]
Airshows, Historic Aircraft, Vintage Aircraft, Warbirds
In September 2013, I travelled to the Auto & Technik Museum at Sinsheim Germany to review the Warbird collection on display. Sinsheim is a town in southwestern Germany, in the Rhine Neckar Area of the state Baden-Württemberg about 22 kilometers southeast of Heidelberg and about 28 kilometers northwest of Heilbronn in the district Rhein-Neckar. This […]
Aviation Museums, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Warbird restoration enthusiasts will have been following the restoration of Beaufort A9-141 for some years. Recently there have been some developments in the progress of this restoration and it’s timely for an update. Beaufort A9-141’s home for the past few years at Caboolture airfield has become unavailable and as such the aircraft has had to […]
Australian Warbirds, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Squadron Leader F A O (Tony) Gaze OAM, DFC and 2 bars, sadly passed away on the 29th of July 2013 at Geelong Victoria at the age of 93. Tony was a highly decorated and colorful Australian Warbird pilot of WW11. He joined the RAF in 1940 (as he was at the time studying at […]
Aviator Biographies, Warbird Pilot, Warbirds