A detailed look at the exciting current restoration of Hudson Mk.IVA A16-105 by the Australian War Memorial.

The Lockheed Hudson is a disproportionately rare type. James Kightly examines the handful of survivors.

Mark Sheppard documents the recent recovery from the Great Lakes of an ultra rare early Birdcage canopy Vought Corsair and recounts the history of this particular model.

Auckland's striking de Havilland DH112 Venom FB 4 was awakened on October 23, 2010 after an 11-year hibernation.

A 1939 Fairchild 24R9 project has been acquired by Andy Bishop, who plans to fully restore the aircraft to as original as possible and get it flying again.

A father-son team in the UK is planning a circumnavigation in a 90 per cent scale Supermarine Spitfire MK26b to raise funds for the International Children's Heart Foundation.

One of the few remaining flying Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses has crashed and burned while making a forced landing in the US.

Organisers of the 2011 Wide Bay Australia International Airshow have announced the event will host an RAAF and RAN WWII and Korean Conflict Fighter Heritage Flight.

The Queensland Air Museum (QAM) has acquired Wirraway A20-652 for its collection as a result of a generous benefactor.

James Kightly surveys some of the most important and remarkable fast piston powered fighters, and highlights significant survivors, as well as noting those gone forever.

Airline captain and ex-FA-18 pilot Gus Larard is the proud new owner of Victoria-based Hawker Fury VH-ORN, C/N37534. Rob Fox and James Kightly visit its new home in Wangaratta.

The demands of WWII generated rapid development in allied fighter technology and performance. Gus Larard, a former RAAF F-18 pilot, has displayed a number of the best restored examples of these aircraft at airshows everywhere. He compares the experience of flying several of these icons.

Here we present an edited extract of CAC’s CA-14 from Keith Meggs' new Volume two of Australian-Built Aircraft and the Industry.

In 1942 Sergeant Allan Thompson and a small group of Australian navigators were plucked from the Empire Air Training Scheme and sent to north Queensland to join the Flying Fortresses of the American 19th Bomb Group. In Part 1 of their story, Steve Birdsall recounts their training and initial missions.

Harry Schoning sheds some light on the ‘Spitmoth'.

David Crotty, curator at Museum Victoria and author of the new book on John Duigan, shares some new insights to Duigan's life and works.