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
A ceremony was held at the RAAF Amberley Heritage Center on 21 April 2013 to mark the completion of external work on the Government Aircraft Factory Canberra B Mk 20, which has been under restoration at Amberleys restoration facility for some time. The Canberra aircraft has now been moved into the display hanger at the […]
Australian Warbirds, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, 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
The Australian Warbird movement had its genesis in the 1950s with individuals such as Titus Oates, Sid Marshall, Jack McDonald, Harold Thomas and Col Pay to name a few. These were people of passion, vision and with strong personalities, required to overcome the inevitable bureaucratic and financial hurdles faced by the early pioneers of the […]
Australian Warbirds, Aviator Biographies, Warbird Pilot, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds