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Fiat CR.32 Aces of the Spanish Civil War – Aircraft of the Aces 94
The Fiat CR.32 was an Italian biplane fighter used in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. This nimble little Fiat was compact, robust and highly maneuverable. The Fiat CR.32 was designed by Celestino Rosatelli. Derived from earlier Fiat CR.30 designs, the CR.32 was a more streamlined and smaller biplane fighter. The prototype MM.201 [...]
Waddington 2009
The first RAF Waddington International Air Show was staged at RAF Waddington in 1995, after the event was moved down from RAF Finningley – an RAF station located near Doncaster which was closed down in 1995. Since then the RAF Waddington International Air Show has developed into the largest of all RAF’s air shows. It [...]
Never Good
After the First World War or better to call it Great War, new established state Kigdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians had in its equipment many of the types of airplanes. Some of them are regularly obtained from Allies while the other was result of the captivity. One of the interesting type was of the [...]
P-8A Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft Homebasing Announced
The Department of the Navy announced on January 2nd 2009 its decision to provide facilities and functions to base five fleet squadrons of the P-8A Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft (MMA) with a fleet replacement squadron at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida, four fleet squadrons at NAS Whidbey Island, Wash., and three fleet squadrons at Marine Corps [...]
New generation of aircraft paints
Aircraft paint coatings have to be of a very high quality since they will have to last for a long time under extremely severe temperature and weather conditions. Aircraft paints already met very high standards for many years. A company like the Dutch Sikkens already developed a generation of durable aircraft paints as early as [...]
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 [...]
Gatwick Air Museum
The Gatwick Aviation Museum is located on the boundary of London Gatwick Airport in the village of Charlwood, Surrey. Originally started in 1987 by Peter Vallance a local businessman as a private collection. It became a registered charity in 1999 with the objective of providing awareness of local aviation history and as an educational centre [...]
Ikarus MM2
MM.2 is the advanced trainer designed by ing. Milosevic. This was result of the fact that in the mid thirties trainer airplanes in the Yugoslav Kingdom had their maximum speed of around 200 km/h and the modern combat planes are double faster. This means that new trained pilot is not prepared for the flying on [...]
City of Norwich Aviation Museum
One of the many of museums in the UK is this small one- City of Norwich Aviation Museum. This Museum is located just off the A140 Norwich to Cromer road, on the north side of Norwich airport. This nice small collection have following airplanes present on images bellow: Lightning Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star s/n 51-6718, [...]
