March 27th 2014 marks the 75th anniversary of the first flight of the CAC Wirraway, an aircraft of immense significance to Australia. The mass-production of military aircraft in Australia was commenced by Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) with the production of the Wirraway. Thousands of pilots carried out their advanced training in Wirraway aircraft at Service […]
Australian Warbirds, Historic Aircraft, RAAF historic aircraft
Saturday 1st of March 2014 marked 100 years to the day since the first Australian Military Flight from Point Cook. To celebrate the occasion a major Airshow entitled “Centenary of Military Aviation” was held at RAAF Williams, Point Cook over the weekend of 1st and 2nd of March and was well supported by the RAAF […]
Airshows, Australian Warbirds, Aviation Museums, Warbird Restoration Projects
There is no doubt a Warbird everyone loves to see and hear is a Supermarine Spitfire. The sound is quite unique, especially the Merlin engine variants. Spitfire aircraft are elegant and aesthetically beautiful examples of the designer’s art. So the eventual inclusion of two more Spitfires on the Australian Warbird scene is cause for excitement. The Supermarine Spitfire […]
Australian Warbirds, Historic Aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Warbirds Online recently travelled to Pays Air Service at Scone, NSW to follow up recent developments with their historic collection of Warbirds. Sadly, Col Pay, the founder of the collection passed away in an accident in December 2007. Since that time the oversight of the legacy passed to Col’s son, Ross who has a real […]
Australian Warbirds, Historic Aircraft, Warbird Restoration Projects
Pioneer Aero in New Zealand are making good progress on their Warbird aircraft restorations. I recently revisited them at their facilities at Ardmore Airfield near Auckland, New Zealand to review the current Warbird restoration projects underway. The first thing that I saw was a Curtiss P40E model that was in the fuselage jig being re […]
Historic Aircraft, NZ Warbirds, Warbird Restoration Projects
Glyn Powell has recently been reorganizing and preparing to take on the next phase in the de Havilland Mosquito restoration work at his Drury Hills base, near Auckland New Zealand. At the time of our visit in January 2014, work was about to commence on the construction of two fuselages with each likely to take […]
NZ Warbirds, Warbird Restoration Projects, Warbirds
Classics of the Sky Tauranga City airshow is one of the larger and more diverse of New Zealand’s program of Warbird and mixed aviation events. The airshow is organized by Classic Flyers NZ and is held every two years, with this years event held on the 25th and 26th of January 2014. Classic Flyers NZ is supported by […]
Airshows, Historic Aircraft, NZ Warbirds
During the month of December Warbirds Online featured the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) Boomerang aircraft its history and news on restoration projects currently underway in Australia. There could be no more suitable aircraft to be celebrated in this way. As a part of our ‘special feature’ on the CAC Boomerang we shared a number of videos and have consolidated four of […]
Australian Warbirds, RAAF historic aircraft, Warbird videos, Warbirds