Blackburn Beverley C1 s/n XB259
Originally designed and built by General Aircraft as the GAL.60 Universal Freighter, the first aircraft was dismantled at the Feltham, Middlesex factory and transported to Brough in Yorkshire to have its maiden flight on 1950-06-20. This was followed by a second, the GAL.65, which was modified from the original. Clamshell doors replaced a combination of [...]
Bournemouth Aviation Museum
Bournemouth Aviation Museum is the only UK Charitable Museum dedicated to preserving and presenting to the public at large, amongst others, operational examples of historic aircraft appreciated by the many hundreds of thousands attending UK airshows.
Bournemouth Aviation Museum
Bournemouth Aviation Museum occupies a 30,000 sq ft hanger at Bournemouth International Airport and is run entirely by [...]
Conroy CL-44-0 Guppy
The aircraft was designed by Jack Conroy as a transport aircraft that could be used to ferry three Rolls-Royce RB.211 jet engines from Belfast, Northern Ireland, to Palmdale, California. The engines were to be installed on the Lockheed L-1011 Tristar Airliner. The Skymonster is based on the Canadair CL-44 freighter (itself a derivative of the [...]
Luftwaffe Air Force Base Porz-Wahn 50th anniversary
On 12 August 2007, a dreamlike summery day, around 80,000 people found their way to the Luftwaffen airbase Porz-Wahn near Cologne to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Luftwaffen base. Besides beer and sausages the main attractions for the visitors were the new Eurofighter Typhoon and a NATO Awac as well as a MedEvac Airbus, [...]
Lelystad 2007
Air show held at Lelystad 14. July 2007. Images bellow show following subjects:
Lelystad
Fairchild Argus, Fokker S-11 from ‘Fokker-Four’ display team, Fokker D-VII replica, Stearman biplane based on Lelystad but no participator of fly-in, Belgian Piper Super Cub, Super Cub from Belgium with KLu markings, Dutch civil registered Super Cub in N.E.I. colours, one of the [...]
Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace
The Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace (The Museum of Air and Space) is a French museum, located in the south-eastern edge of Le Bourget Airport, which is 10 km north of Paris. It was created in 1919 from a proposition of Albert Caquot (1881-1976). Occupying over 150,000 square meters of land and hangars, it [...]
