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 ....
Christchurch’s Air Force Museum of New Zealand is about to celebrate 100 years since the birth of New Zealand military aviation at Wigram itself. The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) as we know it ....
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 ....
The pace of aviation development during the First World War was nothing short of astonishing, with aeroplanes transforming from flimsy, unarmed observation platforms to deadly dominators of the sky ....
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 de Havilland Dragon first went into production in 1930, and it was a modified version of a design which was initially intended to produce a light bomber for the Iraqi Air Force. Just over 200 ....
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 ....
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 ....
Our on-going mission statement is to continue to discover, record and preserve the audiovisual history of the machines and owner/operators that we come across, for the benefit of future generations. ....
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 Second World War, the RNZAF operated a total of 56 Catalina flying boats. None of these aircraft were of the amphibious type as is ZK-PBY, but this Canadian built example is painted to ....
The Southward Car Museum has a fabulous collection of over 400 motor vehicles, many of which are unique. One of the superbly restored vehicles in their collection is this stunning 1930 Alfa Romeo ....
Sixty years ago Marlborough film-maker Paul Davidson was a 14 year old kid standing in a huge crowd beside Wellington Airport's runway. It was the great Capital Air Show celebrating the official ....
Designed by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), Britain’s wartime covert espionage and sabotage organisation, and built by Excelsior Ltd in Welwyn (Hertfordshire), the Welbike foldable motorcycle ....
Conceived by Vivian Loyd as an unarmed and lightly protected general- purpose vehicle, the design was tested in early 1939 by the British Army, who immediately placed an order for 200 units. ....
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