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. ....
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 ....
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 ....
Renown Kiwi warbird pilots Keith Skilling and Dave Phillips put the Jerry Yagen-owned de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito through its paces with several awesome low level flybys....
The B-25 is best remembered for the daring Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in April 1942 when 16 B-25B's were launched from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet. However, in addition to standard medium-level ....
A report from Turkey is suggesting that aviation historians have discovered the previously secret location in which up to 50 WW2-era Focke-Wulf FW-190 fighter aircraft have been buried. Some pundits ....
The Mosquito was one of the very few operational front-line aircraft used during the Second World War that was built almost entirely of wood. Initially designed to be a light-weight (and thus fast) ....
For a few short weeks in August and September 2014 the world's only two surviving airworthy Avro Lancaster bombers spent many hours together flying over the English countryside, often accompanied by ....
There's nothing like the sound of twin Rolls Royce V-12 Merlin engines in harmony, and it's even better when those engines are the powerplants in one of the world's rarest wooden aeroplanes -- the ....
Renown warbird pilots Keith Skilling and Dave Phillips put the Jerry Yagen-owned de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito through its paces and then come in to land several times -- view the action from up close!.
Between 1944 and 1947 the RNZAF had over 420 Corsair fighters which equipped thirteen squadrons in the Pacific Theatre. As there were few Japanese aircraft in the area by the time the Corsairs came ....
The P51-D Mustang is without doubt a favourite of warbird enthusiasts worldwide, and there's nothing quite like the roar and whistle that the Merlin-powered aircraft creates when it's being displayed ....
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