
New Zealand businessman Mike Jones has long held had a fascination with warbird aircraft, and while he's considered buying one of his own on a number of occasions, the time was never quite right. ...
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During the evening, the Japanese mount an airborne attack on U.S. airfields on Leyte, employing 39 or 40 aircraft to drop 15 to 20 paratroopers each. The aircraft targeting Tacloban airfield are shot down or driven off by U.S. anti-aircraft fire, while the troops targeting Dulag Airfield are killed in crash landings, but troops dropped from 35 aircraft at Burauen airfield resist for two days and three nights until killed by U.S. Army Air Forces ground personnel.
New Zealand businessman Mike Jones has long held had a fascination with warbird aircraft, and while he's considered buying one of his own on a number of occasions, the time was never quite right. ...
Personnel from the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN), New Zealand Army and Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) have arrived in Australia to participate in the largest-ever Exercise Talisman Sabre. The ...
Originally purchased new by the Marlborough Aero Club in 1947, De Havilland DH.83 Fox Moth ZK-APT was successfully operated by the club for 16 years until 1963 when it was damaged during a forced
New Zealand warbird enthusiasts will be delighted to learn that the Goodyear-built FG-1D Corsair NZ5648 previously operated by The Old Stick And Rudder Company has apparently been purchased by a Kiwi ...
The Boomerang is often referred to as Australia's 'panic fighter', its development having been triggered by the Japanese advance in the Pacific. The day after two Royal Navy battle ships were sunk by ...
The Yak 3 was the ultimate Soviet fighter aircraft of the Second World War - so much so that the Luftwaffe issued an order that all fighter squadrons were to avoid combat with any Yak lacking an oil
After Ford released their new Mustang 'pony car' in 1964 the company’s vice-president, Lee Iacocca, contracted Shelby American to produce a version of the car that would be suitable for racing in ...
During the early years of tracked carrier development in the late 1930’s there were initially several different types of vehicle that varied slightly from one another according to their design ...
Developed by Vickers in the late 1930’s the ‘Infantry Tank Mk.III, Valentine’ was designed as a tank to support infantry operations, and over the course of the Second World War over 8200 of the type
During the First World War many participants of the conflict wrote poetry about their experiences—the likes of Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brookes and many others are well known—often due ...
The German Pfalz D.III began to appear at the front in August 1917, when the first German units were equipped with the type. Along with its Albatros (D.V) and Fokker (D.VII) contemporaries, this was ...
The Vintage Aviator Limited (TAVL) is a constructor of original World War One aircraft, and the company owns and operates the largest collection of original and reproduction First World War aircraft
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