Most people will by now have heard that the RAFM's replica RE8, Albatros DVa and Sopwith Snipe, built by Peter Jackson and TVAL in New Zealand, have landed in the UK.
Terry Finnegan, author of Shooting the Front, will be giving a talk at the IWM on 20th June 2012
ALBATROS FIGHTER FLIES AGAIN!
Koloman Mayrhofer and Eberhard Fritsch announced that in the late morning of 10th April 2012, after a 94 year break, a WWI designed Albatros fighter has flown again.
Supporting our remit as an educational charity, Cross and Cockade International are part-funding a curator's role at the Royal Air Force Museum, based at Hendon.
Stow Maries Aerodrome closed over winter. The next show will be Saturday 5th May 2012, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the formation of the RFC.
It has been confirmed by Alex's family that he passed away, after a short illness, on 4th June 2011.
A full obituary (below) has been prepared by the family.
We are delighted to announce that, contrary to reports via other forums, Peter Cooksley is still with us.
The following email was today sent to us by Frank Anderson, Chairman of the Croydon Airport Society:
We were saddened today to hear of the death of Dan-San Abbott, after a short illness.
The monograph Naval Aviation in World War I has been out of print for many years and paper copies are no longer available through the Naval Aviation History Branch or the Government Printing Office.
The world's last known combat veteran of World War I, Claude Choules, has died in Australia aged 110.
DRINKSTONE VILLAGE HALL IS ON THE MOVE - Relocation not demolition for rare historic building!
A ninety-year-old relic from the First World War, which was originally an officers mess hut at Great Ashfield Airfield and has served as the Drinkstone Village Hall in Suffolk since 1924, is being moved, lock, stock and barrel, to a new home at a museum and wildlife centre on the former First World War aerodrome at Stow Maries in Essex.
Last year we reported that a permament memorial to Major Lanoe Hawker VC was being created on the site of his fatal crash in France. Phil Mobbs, from today's 24 Sqn, tells us that the project is now complete.
Noted WW1 artist and CCI member Colin Ashford has been elected Vice President of the Guild of Aviation Artists
The Severnside Military Show this year will be held on the Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th of June with a large gathering of armour, jeeps, trucks and enthusiasts. The event has moved from Kemble and will now be held at the Severnside Vintage showground in Cambridge, Glos. The new venue provides a laid back, friendly atmosphere for all of the family to enjoy.
This is your chance to vote for what YOU consider to be the best article published in the journal during 2009.
Next year, 2011, we'll be making an award the the author of the Best Article published in the journal during 2010. You'll have the chance to vote on paper, using a form sent out in the journal - or on line via the web site. To test this latter system, we're giving you the opportunity to let us know what you think of the articles published during 2009.
Over to you!
Our government has decided that the Battle Of Britain Memorial Flight is expendable - and are threatening to withdraw funding.
To mark Paul Leaman's imminent retirement as Chair of Trustees, after 40 years of dedicated service to the society, we're implementing a keynote lecture in his name, to be given at our AGM each year by an eminent aviation historian.
Note that you don't need to be a CCI member to attend - and admission to the RAFM and the Leaman Lecture is free of charge.
When Europe Went Mad: A Brief History of the First World War
- a new title by Terence Finn, working with Tim Kenney marketing - watch the review in the next journal!
In 2010 the Guild will be hosting its 40th annual exhibition! If you've any interest in aviation, and enjoy a well-produced painting, this is a not-to-be-missed event.
The Annual Exhibition of paintings at the Guild of Aviation Artists was being held at The Mall Galleries in London, between 20th and 26th July 2009, and was, yet again, a resounding success.
On Sunday 12th July 2009, underneath the railway arches on the Walthamstow Marshes, an exhibition was held to celebrate to 100th anniversary of the first all-British powered flight.
Last weekend an original 1918 Austro Daimler engine was run, during a Aviation Festival near Vienna. Even better - the engine was in an Oeffag Albatros D.III!
Following the resounding success of the society's first book, "Nieuports in RFC, RNAS & RAF Service", on 1st July 2009 we launched our second. Publication coincided with the unveiling of the newly-restored FE2b at the RAF Museum, Hendon.
We are taking orders NOW through the on-line shop! Don't wait for too long, as interest is proving to be higher than expected, and we're not expedting stocks to last beyond the autumn.
Price delivered in the UK is £30.00, overseas by surface is £32.50 and overseas by airmail is £38.15 - excellent value by any measure!
An exhibition on top Italian ace Francesco Baracca is on display at Lugo (between Bologna and Ravenna) in Northern Italy until 19th July 2009. Anyone in the area should make this a "must see" item!
For the last 20 years, the Ypres Technical School have had a beautiful 110hp Le Rhone rotary engine. Three years ago, staff and students started building an aeroplane for the Le Rhone to live in. Now it's ready to roll!
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