Airways Museum Edgar Johnston Lane, Essendon Airport, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia The Airways Museum may be unique among the world’s aviation museums. Its focus is on the preservation and display of historical electronic equipment association with the development of Australian civil aviation rather than aircraft. This museum is administered by the Civil Aviation Historical Society, a…

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Bloch 200 – Bloch 131 – Dassault Mirage IVA The French aircraft industry was among world leaders from the beginning and, apart from the setback in the first half of the 1940s, has been at the forefront of aviation technology since. To show how rapidly the industry developed let’s look at three examples of French…

NEW IN THE READING ROOM Addition to Workbench Notes CAC CA-27 Avon Sabre in 1/72 by High Planes NEW IN THE GALLERIES Additions to the Aircraft Galleries Airbus A.330-300 (Air Hong Kong, B-LDO, 2020) in 1/144 by Revell CAC CA-27 Avon Saber (A94-971, 3 Squadron RAAF, 1958) in 1/72 by High Planes Grumman F9F-2 (VFM-311,…

Ambulance Aircraft Augusta 109 K2 – Bloch 81 – Aerospatiale SA365N Dauphin 2 Two of the great advantages of air travel over land travel is that it is faster and can simply fly over obstructions like rivers, mountains and traffic jams. This makes flying perhaps the best (but not the cheapest) way of transporting people…

Pusher Warplanes De Schelde S.21 – Kyushu J8W1 – Vultee XP-54 When we wander around the museum we take it for granted that propeller driven aircraft have their engines and propellers at the front of the aircraft. But very occasionally there is one with the propeller at the back. At the beginning of aviation it…

Gliders Schneider Grunau Baby 1 – Waco CG-4A – Castel Mauboussin CM8/13 Looking at Swiss aircraft, as we did last week, I was struck by the appearance of the lovely little, yellow, F+N N-20.1 Arbalete glider that was made to test the concept of the Aiguillon fighter. This set me wondering how many gliders there…

Here it is.

Swiss Aircraft EKW D-3800 – Doflug D-3802 – EFW N-20.10 When we think of Swiss manufacturing an aircraft manufactuging industry is not the first thing that comes to mind. There is the the Pilatus company which has been manufacturing light transport aircraft and trainers since the 1950s that have sold around the world, but before…