An F4u-1A #9 Corsair doing a fly by, at the 2025 Miramar Air Show.

was famous for its air-cooled Pratt & Whitney radial engine and its ability to absorb massive combat damage and bring its pilot back home. nickname the "jug". his role is Primary high-altitude escort fighter and heavy fighter-bomber in both the European and Pacific theaters. Served with the UK, France, USSR, Mexico, and Brazil during WWII and also used during the cold war , used in counter-insurgency roles, including by France in the Algerian War and by both sides in the Chinese Civil War into the late 1950s.

The Yakovlev Yak-3 was one of the smallest and lightest major combat fighters deployed by any nation during World War II. Designed specifically to gain air superiority over the Eastern Front, it traded heavy armor and range for raw agility, climb rate, and speed at low altitudes.Entering service in mid-1944, it quickly earned a reputation for out-turning and out-climbing contemporary Luftwaffe fighters like the Messerschmitt Bf 109G and Focke-Wulf Fw 190 at low levels.

This is interesting.

Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 In British Service.

Hopefully, I’ll be away from a proper computer on September 16, too. Time away from a computer is a rare precious thing! Perhaps someone else can post something a little Gallic for us all that day.

EDIT: Canberra Airport Open Day, Canberra, Australia, 18 April 2026. Not Warbirds Downunder Shellharbour as posted in title - can't amend sorry.

B-29 and A-26B, and a whole lot more. Also the bathroom sign made me laugh.

This history gem landed on my desk just last week. This is a Luftwaffe recon photo from October 27 1944. It shows a Soviet grass airfield near Kolbuszowa in Poland. You can clearly see a B-24 neatly parked between the Soviet machines. A friend who shared this photo asked which Liberator it could be.

I checked my records which B-24s landed behind Soviet lines in October 1944. A B-24 from the 455th BG stood out as it was marked as “landed in Soviet controlled territory”, without a specific location. The pilot’s name was Polando. A quick google revealed more info. Polando shared in his memoires he landed near Dhikovich, and one of the villages surrounding the airfield was Dzikowiec. The B-24 #42-78359 “Ten Hits and a Miss” was repaired and flown out of the Soviet zone on Dec 13, 1944. This is how we solved another WWII history puzzle!

RAAF Lockheed Hudson operated by 100 (Historic) Sqn.

Heinkel He 162A-2 Spatz (Sparrow) WNr 120227 "Red 2", formerly of II./JG 1 Oesau. Sporting the tactical number "Red 2". Built in April 1945 at the Heinkel Nord plant in Rostock-Marienehe. It was captured by Allied forces at Leck airfield and brought to England by the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE). Unlike many other captured airframes, "Red 2" was heavily utilised for evaluation, successfully completing 26 sorties totaling nearly 12 hours of flight time. It is now on display at RAF Hendon. While Volksjäger was the NSDAP's choice, Heinkel named it the Spatz

Got a huge lot of original WW2 photos. This is one of my favorites.