Shiny Focke-Wulf!

 

MeierMotors (Max Alpha) rolled out FlugWerk 190 (former G-FWAB) for an 8 minute engine run recently. Test flights should commence soon!
Picture courtesy of MeierMotors.com

Fury announced for Duxford Spring Show!

Historic Aircraft Company have included there original Hawker FUry bi-plane fighter for 2011's Duxford Spring Airshow. Yet to arrive at DX, the fighter will be joined in the air by HAC's and TFC's Hawker Nimrods.

Sea Fury T.20 joins RNHF

The Royal Navy Historic Flight have loaned Sea Fury T.20 VX281. It will serve as a training aircraft but also as a stand in for FB.11 VR930 (pictured) at airshows until it's Centaurus engine has been overhauled.

"Just Jane" moves closer to flight

The UK's second Lancaster, currently in taxiable condition, has taken a step closer to returning to the air. The ambitious project is still years away but a significant milestone has been reached - it has been reinstated on the UK register as G-ASXX.
The Licolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre now have three airworthy Merlin engines and the spares stores are being filled to a healthy level.

Corsair In The Air!

Family owned Vought Corsair F4U-4 N715JT took to the air following restoration on March 6th 2011. The aircraft crashed, fatally, on 10th November 2002.

Flug Werks on the move

Two FlugWerk 190's have recently left Germany for their new homes. Military Aviation Museum's D-FMFW has now left MeierMotors for Virginia Beach, Virginia and D-FWWC has been purchased by New Zealand's Chariots Of Fire Fighter Collection - it is the first of its type in the Southern Hemisphere.

 
 Picture of D-FWWC courtesy of Wolverhampton Aviation Group

P-38 For Legends

It has been announced that P-38L Lockheed Lightning, owned by Red Bull, will attend 2011's Flying Legends Airshow in July. It will be accompanied by Red Bull's F4U-4 Vought Corsair. Both machines brandish the distinct Red Bull logo.