Recently at Caboolture, Qld Ron Lee’s beautiful Mk3B DH Drover VH-FDU was refurbished and fired her engines up again to take place in a display in aid of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The aircraft was visited by one of her Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) pilots, Jimmy Murtha who was photographed next to “his” […]
Historic Aircraft
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
The Udvar Hazy is not the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) proper which is located in the center of Washington. I am sure you all know that but some tourists get confused. NASM is the most visited museum in the world but is not big enough to hold the Smithsonian collection of aircraft, hence […]
Aviation Museums, Historic Aircraft, Warbirds
The National Aerospace Museum (NASM) in Washington DC is one of the worlds largest Aviation themed museums and houses a wonderful collection of Warbirds. For those who haven’t travelled in this part of the the USA, there are a large group of Museums in the centre of Washington that are owned by the Smithsonion Institution, […]
Aviation Museums, Historic Aircraft, Warbirds
Regular readers of aviation publications will be aware of the recent import into Australia of 4 WW1 Fokker reproductions, 3 from Germany built by Achim Engles and another airworthy example from the USA. On the 15th of July there was a celebration to introduce all the arrival of the Warbirds to the Australian public – entitled […]
Fokker Aircraft, Historic Aircraft, Vintage Aircraft, Warbirds, WW1 aircraft
Watts Bridge Queensland was the venue on the 16th of May 2013 for the first flight of Bruce and Mary Clarkes WW1 Sopwith Pup replica aircraft. The aircraft was built by Bruce and Mary over the past 2 years from an Airdrome kit. The structure externally gives a very faithful representation of the pup although the […]
Historic Aircraft, Vintage Aircraft, WW1 aircraft