Soviet “Night Witches” and the Flying Beasts from the East

September 10th, 2011 Eastern Front Flying Day Once again I returned to Paine Field, Everett (almost becoming my summer weekend getaway) to see the latest flying day held by the Flying Heritage Collection! Todays display was to showcase the collections Russian aircraft: Polikarpov U-2/PO-2 A general purpose biplane mainly used as a flight trainer, built between 1928-1953. This…

Meeting William E. Boeing Junior @ Vintage Aircraft Weekend

September 3rd, 2011 Vintage Aircraft Weekend On this day I attended the Vintage Aircraft Weekend hosted by the Historic Flight Foundation at Paine Field, Mukilteo, Washington (another local museum with an excellent collection of flight capable historic aircraft owned by John Sessions  a wealthy Seattle based international corporate attorney and entrepreneur). The theme for this years weekend was…

Achtung! Jabos!

August 27th, 2011 Ground Attack Flying Day On a beautiful sunny Pacific Northwest summers day the Flying Heritage Collection museum at Paine Field, Everett put on another great flying day by to showcase two famous ground attack aircraft, one from WW2: the museums Republic P-47D Thunderbolt “Tallahassee Lassie” (known as the “Jug” by WW2 pilots),…

Battle of Britain: A Duel of Eagles

Battle of Britain The Battle of Britain was the largest and most famous air battle in history. By day and night the combatants from Britain (along with pilots from other allied nations) and their enemies from Germany (with some limited support from Italy) fought in the skies over Britain between July 10th and October 31st, 1940. France…

Warbirds, Helicopters, Jet Fighters and Poutine….thankyou Canada :-)

12th August, 2011 Abbotsford International Air Show Canada’s national air show is held in Abbotsford, British Columbia each year for 3 days (the show has been running since 1962). Abbotsford is just across the border from Washington state, USA. Originally I had planned to attend the show on August 13th on a bus tour from Seattle, this…

Seafair……Seattle’s festival of ships, hyperboats and aircraft!

August 2nd to 5th, 2011 Seafair Fleet Week What an awesome week! Navy ships sailing about the bay, tours on the ships, climbing about armoured vehicles and helicopters, whilst historic and current military aircraft flying overhead, never a dull moment! A true “boys own adventure” week for sure! The first day involved watching some of the…

The Red, White and Blue

JULY 4th, 2011 Independence Day A day to celebrate US independence from the British in 1776. July 4th was the day the Declaration of Independence was approved, but legally the separation of the US colonies actually happened on July 2nd! The day is a public holiday and traditionally is celebrated with BBQ’s and fireworks. All these…

Florida – my temporary home with diversions to Kentucky and Alabama

March 2011 Melbourne, Florida After a great week in Arizona I made my way to Orlando and then Melbourne, Florida (Indian Harbour Beach to be specific) – my temporary home for a couple of months (thanks cousin Bronni & Shane!). Kind of ironic to move across the world and end up in the same named…

Recap of my travels in the past year (2010)

The past year has gone by so fast, one moment I am leaving my Australian home and  job in May 2010 to travel the world, then before you know it I am living in Seattle, Washington USA! Most of 2010 was such an adventure travelling through: USA (May 2010) Central and southern Florida– Launch of Space…