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Local NewsThe Grumman XF5F and XP-50 Skyrocket; the road to the F7F Tigercat. A hopefully interesting offering on an exciting period in our aviation history of development and never-ending striving for power and speed from: mikefeeney@actrix.co.nz
If there is one “classic” working aircraft that has operated in New Zealand that I know just about every pilot would like to have a pole of, it must surely be the de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver (apart from the DC-3 of course!). So I have been meaning to point AeroHub followers to Canadian Neil Aird’s [...]
The tale of how this somewhat odd-looking (“Fuselage munching on the wing!”) late 1930′s American military machine has now appeared in this series, goes far back in time to the ‘golden’ years of our nation; 1951. Picture, if you will, the sunny playing field of Fairfield Primary School, Hamilton, New Zealand. Out in front of [...]
The wonderful Avro Lancaster was not only a great load carrier, but was also aerodynamically efficient enough to, in suitable conditions, provide the chaps with some recreational gliding experience. Here we see a Lanc., with all four Merlins stopped, sweeping past during some ridge-soaring along the windward face of the Chiltern Hills. Little has been [...]
The World’s Most Ludicrous Aircraft. # 01/2008. Blackburn Roc/Skua. These essays are intended to make a light-hearted (in part) examination of a selection of what, arguably, I consider to have been the most ill-conceived, useless, hilariously inept, sometimes dangerous, inadequate, inappropriate and just simply ‘orrible aircraft ever to (un) grace the skies. Just on the [...]
The Douglas DC-5/R3D/C-110 and the KLM and Fokker F-24/F27 connection. Most aviation people know of the success of the Douglas DC-2, 3, 4, ….. 6, 7, 8, 9 and DC-10 airline transport aircraft, but many are not aware of the story of the ‘missing’ number “5″ of the long lineage. There was a lot happening [...]
On October 8th., it will have been 55 years since the London to Christchurch Air Race was won by a Douglas DC-6A “Liftmaster” and an RAF English Electric Canberra. The Canberra won the Speed Section, taking just under 24 hours total elapsed time. The KLM DC-6A won the Handicap Section in 49 hours, 57 minutes [...]
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