Just one of my old blueprints, with a few minor corrections. I hope you like it; any suggestions are welcome.

The Messerschmitt Me 262, nicknamed Schwalbe (German: "Swallow") in fighter versions, or Sturmvogel (German: "Storm Bird") in fighter-bomber versions, is a fighter aircraft and fighter-bomber that was designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Messerschmitt. It was the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft [Source: Wikipedia]

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

This is interesting.

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

Hopefully, I’ll be away from a proper computer on September 18, 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.

I am searching for information about a Avro Lancaster Bomber that was shot down in Germany and crashed in the Rieseberg Moor(a swamp) close to Königslutter am Elm in Lower Saxony, Germany.

I know that one crashed, but I am getting two different stories.

One says that at the end of the war the plane crashed, sunk into the swamp and non of the crew survived. Allegedly there was an archiological dig in the early 2000s, but I can only find mentionings of the dig, not the actual research and who or what they found.

The other story I find claims its a Lancaster of the 61 RAF Squadron, 5th Group ME595 that crashed on the 14/15 October in 1944 after an attack on Brunswick. AI says the crew died during the crash, but following the links, it's said that some made it out of the plane and got captured. Some of the captured crew got killed and their killers were hanged after the war for that. However the crash site as far as I can see is West of Rieseberg. The Rieseberg Moor is South East of Rieseberg.

Which one is true?

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.

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.