The Great Eastern Fly-In air display was held at Evans Head Airfield in Northern NSW from 10 to 12 January 2014. There was a particularly large number of Warbirds for a Fly-In event and it was well supported by a host of local and visiting aircraft. Warbirds Online photographers attended the air display on the […]
Airshows, Australian Warbirds, Warbirds
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 the Westland Sea King helicopter was retired from service in Australia and it appears that all, bar one example have been disposed of overseas, with some parts and wreckage also extant at Nowra, NSW Australia. It is unusual that an aircraft with such an extensive and productive 35 years of service to the nation […]
Helicopters
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
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