Every Warbird enthusiast will surely have a sturdy collection of Warbird books, both as a handy reference and for the pleasure of reading. I recently acquired The CAC Boomerang: A Detailed Guide to the RAAF’s Famous WWII Fighter (Airframe Album) and consider it to be a worthy candidate for a book review. It is not often that you […]
Australian Warbirds, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Books, Warbirds
Recently Warbirds Online visited Greg Batts workshop in suburban Brisbane Queensland, to get an update on the progress on his CAC Boomerang Warbird restoration projects. Quite a lot has changed in the 12 months since my last visit. Greg’s Boomerang aircraft, CA-12, RAAF serial A46-54 had been trial assembled and has now been dismantled down […]
Australian Warbirds, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
During the month of December 2013 Warbirds Online highlights an aircraft with great significance to Australia, the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) CA-12 Boomerang. Much has been written on the story of this aircraft from its inception as a concept, through to its first flight 16 weeks later and its service life. What has not been […]
Australian Warbirds, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
This week we can report that the Bristol Beaufort A9-141 under restoration at Caboolture Qld is now resplendent in a full coat of camouflage on the entire fuselage, following on from the completion of the tail assembly. The paint looks beautiful and is accurate for this aircraft: – A9-141 during its RAAF service. Ron Lee […]
Australian Warbirds, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
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