Let Let Let – Warplanes

Second World War Aircraft Preservation Society is in the north-east area of Lasham Airfield, Alton, Hampshire. Collection include wartime buildings, material recovered from the crash sites as well outdoor displayed airplanes. On the same airfield is also stationed gliding club. Some of the aircrafts from the museum display are obtained from the other air forces [...]

Flugausstellung Hermeskeil in Germany is the largest privately owned aviation museum in Europe. It is founded in 1973 and it cover the space of some 76.000 square meters. On this large area is display many of the civil and military airplanes. Museum is open to visitors from April to October. Some over 100 of airplanes, [...]

The MiG-23’s predecessor, the MiG-21 (NATO reporting name ‘Fishbed’), was fast and agile, but limited in its operational capabilities by its primitive radar, short range, and limited weapons load (restricted in some aircraft to a pair of short-range air-to-air missiles). The MiG-23 was to be a heavier, more powerful machine designed to remedy these deficiencies, [...]

The famous Paris Airshow at Le Bourget celebrated this year (1909) its 100th anniversary. It was important enough for president Sarkozy to visit the airshow on Saturday 20 June, the first day of the public airshow. However, also this show was affected by the international financial crisis and there was very little news. Only new [...]

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 Fagot (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-15) was a jet fighter developed for the USSR by Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich. The MiG-15 was one of the first successful swept-wing jet fighters, and it achieved fame in the skies over Korea, where early in the war, it outclassed all enemy fighters. The MiG-15 [...]

The Royal International Air Tattoo is a very large Air Show containing hundreds of military aircraft from a wide variety of countries both in the static park and flying display. RIAT has been held at Fairford since 1985 and one of the themes of this years display was to mark the 60th anniversary of the [...]

The Flying Legends Air Show is held every year at the famous World War II airfield of Duxford. You can expect to see a variety of vintage warbirds performing air displays. Duxford is also the home of The Fighter Collection as well as the Imperial War Museum collection.

Hawk 75 in French WW2 camouflage and markings

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North Weald Airfield was established as a military airfield during the First World War. It continued to be used as a military base between the wars and was an important Royal Air Force base in the Second World War. North Weald is also home to Aces High who specialise in providing aircraft for use in [...]

Duxford is an excellent museum and must rate as one of the best aircraft museums in the world, it is located in Cambridgeshire and was an active airfield during the Second World War. The famous pilot Douglas Bader was based at Duxford also the film Battle of Britain was filmed here.
Followingg airplanes are present on [...]