The Fighter Collection at Duxford has over the years included several of the P40 family of aircraft in its collection and as long as I have been travelling to Duxford I have always been impressed with these “Hawks”. Currently, it must be said that the Curtiss fleet at The Fighter Collection numbers just about the rarest […]
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Duxford Spitfires – the “Dirty Dozen”
One reason a lot of Warbird enthusiasts attend Duxford UK is that it is the best place in the world to see the Supermarine Spitfire, both in numbers and in terms of rarity of the versions present. This year 12 Supermarine Spitfires participated in the Flying program at Duxford – 11 from the Airfield and […]
Airshows, Historic Aircraft, WarbirdsSea King Helicopters in Europe
Regular readers will remember that we reported last year on the ongoing retirement of the Westland Sea King Helicopter from UK service. There will still be opportunities to see some of these long serving and capable aircraft in coming years but as spare parts run down and replacement aircraft such as the Agusta Westland Merlin […]
HelicoptersHawker Hunter | Aussies restore a Cold War icon
A new and much anticipated aircraft arrival at Caboolture airfield on 2 September 2014 was Hawker Hunter S4/U/3308 XF432 FR74B, G-9-363, and G-BABM, Singapore “526”. The aircraft is the last of 21 ex-Singapore Air Force Hunters that Geoff Moesker acquired in 1995 and is still owned by him. Geoff has placed the aircraft at Caboolture Qld […]
Cold War, Historic Aircraft, Warbird Restoration ProjectsSpitfire air display – Yeovilton 2014
The Yeovilton air show 2014 was well supported by the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight with the attendance of Spitfires MK356 (Mk LFIXe) and PS915 (Mk PRXIX) and the units Dakota ZA947 which is now painted to represent Dakota FZ692 of No 233 Squadron, around the D-Day period in 1944 . The two Spitfires put […]
Airshows, Fighter Aircraft, Historic AircraftHarrier display – Farnborough airshow 2014
With the future advent of the new JSF F-35B into service and the scaling back of the UK defense budget, the BAE/ McDonnell Douglas Harrier and Sea Harrier is becoming a less common sight these days and indeed it was a real surprise to see one again on my recent trip to the UK in […]
Airshows, Cold WarAvro Vulcan – Cold War Bomber
Warbirds Online has long been a fan of the Avro Vulcan and although the aircraft was a success throughout its RAF service from 1956 until 1984, it was also a very dramatic performer as a display aircraft. My earliest sight of a Vulcan was at primary school at Dubbo NSW in the early 1960s when […]
Airshows, Cold WarHawker Biplanes – UK Collection
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 […]
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