As a life-long aviation enthusiast, I am sure that I share many recognisable traits with my fellow Flying Tigers Newsletter readers.  Although we all have our favourite aircraft, which if pressed, would always be at the head of our personal lists, we also have our reserve list and a number of guilty pleasures (steady on, […]

Without doubt, one of the rarest jet aircraft in the world has just been dismantled at the Imperial War Museum Duxford, for a journey to its new home away from these shores.  This American aviation classic has been wooing UK Airshow audiences for well over 20 years, but unfortunately, our luck has now run out […]

Friday 24th October 2014 marked a sad anniversary in the world of aviation, as eleven years have now passed since the last commercial flight of the much loved Concorde supersonic passenger aircraft.  To this day, Concorde still looks every inch a futuristic aeroplane and continues to captivate aviation enthusiasts all over the world, with its […]

In this Centenary year since the beginning of the Great War, one Airshow display aircraft carried the flag for this important anniversary in an extremely high profile manner this summer – the Royal Air Force Tucano T.1.  Our header image for this weekend shows Tucano T.1 ZF244 waiting to begin its display at a rather […]

With the sad realisation that the 2014 UK Airshow season is finally drawing to a close and the spectacularly memorable visit of the Canadian Warplane Heritage Lancaster is almost over, it is hardly surprising that a significant aviation event has almost slipped under the radar – the British Aerospace Hawk is 40 years old!  At […]

With the 2014 UK Airshow season dominated by talk of the Canadian Warplane Heritage Avro Lancaster and rightly so, I decided to head in a different direction last weekend and sample the atmospheric delights of the aviation time capsule that is the Shuttleworth Collection, at Old Warden aerodrome, in Bedfordshire.  With the weather set fair […]

As the USAAF entered the war in Europe, they brought with them a group of young pilots who were raw, but well trained and keen to make their mark on an air war, which was growing more savage by the day.  They also brought with them the industrial prowess of the United States and the […]

Having recently returned from a week’s well earned holiday on the sunny Isle of Wight, thought that our latest Newsletter should have something of a nautical flavour to it.  Even though our breaks away are extremely hard won these days and we were both certainly in need of a good rest,  you can take your […]

Although there have been a number of significant anniversaries this year, the 2014 UK Airshow season will probably be remembered by most enthusiasts for one thing – the Gathering of Lancasters.  After almost a year of meticulous planning, the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum’s Avro Lancaster Mk.X (FM213) arrived at RAF Coningsby on Friday 8th August, […]

Hardly a week seems to pass these days, without news hitting the web and enthusiast forums regarding historic aeroplanes, both home and abroad and their immediate futures.  Without doubt, one of the highlights of 2014 so far has been the return to the air of The Fighter Collection’s magnificent Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat, which has to […]

As Britain was thrust in to a second world war, her air force was by no means prepared for the coming conflict.  Many of its aircraft were older designs, which had been far outstripped by the modern aircraft of Germany and Japan and although a modernisation programme had now been given maximum priority, the 1939 […]