Graeme Frew, well known New Zealand warbird pilot (and owner of Yak-3 racer 'Full Noise") recently had one of those experiences where a chance encounter suddenly propelled his life trajectory in an ...
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Two German Junkers Ju.88 bombers attack the British light cruiser HMS Calcutta 100 nautical miles (185 km) north of Alexandria, Egypt, as she retires after evacuating troops from Crete. Calcutta was hit by two bombs and sank, with 255 men being rescued by HMS Coventry and 107 men killed or missing
Graeme Frew, well known New Zealand warbird pilot (and owner of Yak-3 racer 'Full Noise") recently had one of those experiences where a chance encounter suddenly propelled his life trajectory in an ...
One of the social aspects of many aero clubs, certainly within New Zealand, but also elsewhere around the world, are the occasional 'fly-in' events where a number of aircraft will fly to a certain ...
The Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow held in Wanaka (New Zealand) over Easter 2024 must be considered to have been a resounding success. The weather for the show was fantastic, the display
The recent Wings Over Wairarapa airshow in Masterton (New Zealand), was once again beset with poor weather, meaning that many of the expected warbird aircraft could not make the journey to Hood ...
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
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
The third of four full scale Fokker Eindecker aircraft in New Zealand has recently been seen on the display line at Omaka Aerodrome in Blenheim, New Zealand. This remarkably accurate World War One ...
Strong winds during the Wings Over Wairarapa Air Festival at Hood Aerodrome in November meant that The Vintage Aviator's latest reproduction aircraft, a German Fokker Eindecker monoplane, was not ...
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
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