At Warbirds Online we are real fans of 1930s biplane fighters, in particular the Hawker series of aircraft including the Audax, Hind, Fury, Demon, Hartbees, Osprey and Hart and others. This series of designs was very successful being built in Bomber and Fighter configurations as well as a carrier based fighter in the case of the […]
Airshows, Historic Aircraft
I visited the RAF Museum Hendon again this year for the first time in 9 years to see what progress has been made on their aircraft collection. One aspect of the collection which has always appealed to me has been the exhibits that served in Australia with the RAAF, including a Supermarine Walrus/Seagull, Lockheed Hudson […]
Australian Warbirds, Aviation Museums, Historic Aircraft, RAAF historic aircraft
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
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
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