Three Airliners in Six Decades Boeing 727-200 – Boeing 737-800 – Airbus A.320 Everyone knows that I think airliners are way cool. I like them because, with very rare exceptions, they have never deliberately killed anyone or destroyed anything. Their business is to carry people and freight from place to place as safely as possible.…

Additions to the Public Galleries CAC CA-5 Wirraway in 1/72 by MPM Gloster Meteor F.8 in 1/72 by Airfix McDonnell Douglas F-18A in 1/72 by Hobby Boss Messerschmitt Bf109C-1 in 1/72 by Heller Schneider Grunau Baby IIb in 1/72 by Kovozavody Prostejov Vought Sikorsky VS-44 in 1/144 by Anigrand Addition to the Wayne Eagles Gallery…

Early X-Planes Douglas X-3 – Bell X-5 – Lockheed X-9 There is something romantic about the early X-planes. The whole idea began towards the end of World War 2 when various organizations in the United States, including NACA, the USAAF and USN, wanted to conduct research into high speed flight. The first X-plane was the…

Lost Designs BAC TSR2 – Northrop YF-23 – Dassault Mirage IIIV The history of aviation is littered with aircraft designs that never made it off the drawing boards, many of them good ideas that weren’t needed or were impractical. There are also many good designs that were built but never entered production. Sometimes they didn’t…

The Curator’s Choice 61 Aermacchi MB.326H – Aermacchi MB.339CD – AESL CT/4A It is now a little over a century since soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ‘were butchered like lambs at the slaughter’ on the beaches at Gallipoli. Every year since Australians and New Zealanders around the world have gather on…

Golden Age Racers DeHavilland DH-88 – Howard DGA-6 – Caudron 460 The 1930s was an exciting period in the history of aviation. Technology was forging ahead rapidly with new and intriguing ideas being explored and new aircraft being rolled out of the workshops all the time. At the forefront of these developments were the aircraft…

Bombers, 1939 Armstrong Whitworth Whitley II – Amiot 143 – Dornier Do17F By the northern summer of 1939 Europe’s great powers had been preparing for war for more than three years. From as early as 1935 the clouds of war had been gathering and governments had been building up their armed forces in expectations of…

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Qantas (but not Qantas) Boeing 747SP – Boeing 767-300ER – DeHavilland Comet 4 Branding is an important part of business because it tells us who is providing a product or service we use, or think about using. Companies build up brand recognition and trust in their services so we are happy to use them over…

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Forgotten Fifties Fighters Aerfer Ariete – Nord Griffon II – North American YF-93A The 1950s was an exciting time to be involved in aviation. Rapid advances in aerodynamic knowledge, new materials and new and powerful motors opened the door to new and sensational innovations. The force of the Cold War also drove governments to support…

Lend-Lease Fighters Curtiss Tomahawk II – North American Mustang IV – Vought Corsair I Between March 1941 and the end of World War 2 the United States transferred to Allied nations a total of $40.1billion of war materials ($719billion in 2021 value). This was seventeen percent of the United States total was expenditure. Of that…