Christen Eagle II (c/n PFA 138-14627, OK-IGL), flying display at Memorial Air Show 2019, Roudnice nad Labem airfield, June 2019. In the 1960s, Frank L. Christensen, an American student of the senior year at Stanford […]
On 27th September 1909, the Short Biplane No.2 experimental aircraft performed its first flight at Shellbeach, the Isle of Sheppey. At the dawn of aviation, the British daily newspaper Daily Mail supported the pioneer aviators […]
Gloster Gladiator Mk I (c/n 40468, formerly K8042 of the Royal Air Force), exhibited at the Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon, London, July 2014. Developed by Gloster as a private company venture, the Gladiator […]
Hawker Nimrod II (c/n 41H-59890, formerly K3661 of the Fleet Air Arm), exhibited at Hangar 2 of the Imperial War Museum Duxford, June 2014. In the middle of 1920s, the Air Ministry began to look […]
Bristol Bulldog Mk IIA (c/n 7446, formerly G-ABBB), exhibited at the Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon, London, July 2018. At the beginning of the 1920s, the Royal Air Force fighter tactics were focused on […]
Beechcraft D17S Staggerwing (c/n 4896, N69H), static display at spotter day organized on the eve of 100th Anniversary of the German Naval Aviation (Marineflieger), Nordholz air base, August 2013. The aircraft, officially designated Model 17, […]
On 3rd March 1912, Avro 500 military utility biplane designed by A.V. Roe, performed its maiden flight. Alliott Verdon Roe, the British aircraft manufacturer and pioneer pilot, started his aviation career in the early 1900s, […]
At the beginning of October 2021 we had a possibility to visit a historical aircraft collection located in western Bohemia, at Plzeň-Lině airfield. The Classic Trainers association – similarly to Točna aviation museum we have […]
On 11th February 1941, flying in a poor weather conditions, Capitano Mario Visintini crashed his Fiat CR.42 fighter into Mount Bizen, Eritrea. Mario Visintini was born on 26th April 1913, in Parenzo d´Istria, now known […]
Focke-Wulf Fw 44J ´Stieglitz´ (c/n: 663, formerly ´663´ of the Swedish Air Force, D-ENAY / Quax Flieger association), taxiing at Fliegerhorst Wittmundhafen air force base, June 2013. At first, there was ´Kiebitz´ (English: lapwing), a […]
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