Warbirds Online recently attended The Australian Vintage Aviation Society (TAVAS) Great Vintage Fly-In titled “A tribute to the Knights of the Sky” the fighter pilots of WWI, WWII and Beyond. The event was held over the recent ANZAC weekend 23 and 24th of April 2016 at the Caboolture airfield, Queensland. There was an excellent attendance […]
Airshows, Australian Warbirds, Historic Aircraft, Vintage Aircraft, WW1 aircraft
Warbirds Online attended the Warbirds Downunder Airshow at Temora on the 20th and 21st of November 2015 and it was a great event. One of the feature attendees at the Airshow was Chance Vought Corsair F4U-5N, Bu No 124493 FAH603, VH-III. The aircraft displayed several times at Temora and is a beautiful sounding machine on the ground […]
Airshows, Australian Warbirds, Warbird Restoration Projects
One interesting feature of the RAAF Richmond Bi Centennial Air Show in 1988 was the presence of 3 replica WW11 Fighters, a Messerschmitt Bf 109 and 2 Spitfires. Externally the replicas were quite convincing and popular folklore has it that the Spitfires were cast from the real thing (supposedly Col Pays Spitfire). The aircraft were […]
Airshows, Australian Warbirds, Warbirds
Warbirds Online visited the Great Eastern Fly-In air display held on the 10th and 11th of January 2015 at Evans Head, NSW. It was an excellent event as always and very well run. The stars of the show were naturally enough the Warbirds with a good selection of aircraft turning up including Paul Bennet’s TBM3 […]
Airshows, Historic Aircraft
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 […]
Airshows, Historic Aircraft, Warbirds
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, Warbirds
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 […]
Helicopters
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 Aircraft