Flight of the Pig over the Southern Alps The image of a swing-wing strike aircraft carving across the skies of New Zealand’s Southern Alps near Wanaka is rare. At the Warbirds Over Wanaka airshow in 2006, an F‑111C of the Royal Australian ...
B-52 Stratofortress at Wings Over Wairarapa The Wings over Wairarapa Air Festival organisers have announced that they have put plans in motion to bring a United States Air Force Boeing B-52 Stratofortress to this month’s event. This flypast ...
RNZAF A-4K Skyhawks Refuelling Air-To-Air The Royal New Zealand Air Force operated a force of over 20 McDonnell Douglas A-4 Skyhawks over a period of 31 years from 1970 through to 2001. During this period the aircraft of No. 75 Sqn would ...
Soko Galeb G-2 - The Yugoslavian Seagull The Galeb ("Seagull") was the first Yugoslavian jet design to enter production, and featured a 2500lb thrust Rolls-Royce Viper II turbine engine (the same engine used in the contemporary Aermacchi ...
Britain's Last Cold War-Era V-Bomber A popular feature of XH558 at flypasts and air shows was the so-called 'Vulcan Howl', a distinctive sound made by some Vulcan airframes when the engines were at approximately 90 percent power. This ...
Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18 Hornet The Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18A and F/A-18B Hornets are multi-role fighter aircraft, capable of air-to-air and air-to-ground missions. Both the single seat F/A-18A and twin seat F/A-18B can ...
Just Like The Original 'Top Gun' If you like the intense opening scenes of the original Top Gun, then you'll love this video of six vintage warbird jet fighter trainers taxiing and then taking off on a stinking hot New ...
