Recent scholarship (link below) reveals that although Australia had hoped to retain the bulk of its Lend-Lease combat aircraft, lingering enmities (between the US and Australia) combined with federal election pressures to ensure their exclusion from the mid-1946 settlement agreement - and...
Reading about the Boomerang and the Wirraway, it's clear that the nascent Australian aircraft industry had some capability, and they were eager to produce some aircraft with which to contribute to the war effort and to their own regional defense, instead of just waiting for aircraft to arrive...
The Sikorsky S-61 is a large transport helicopter originally introduced in 1961 as a passenger version of the Sea King.
The S-61L was the non-amphibious version and the S-61N has floats for maritime operations. The S-61 has been used by several civil and military organisations around the...
Ivan Smirnoff was Russia's fourth highest Ace in World War I. He was credited with shooting down 11 German aircraft.
van was naturalised as a Dutch citizen. In early 1942, Captain Smirnoff had flown his DC-3 Dakota transport aircraft between Java and Australia evacuating Royal Netherlands...
What would be the benefits and shortcomings of Allies having more Spitfires, that might be produced in Canada, Australia, and, for the sake of discussion, in the USA?
These were taken in 1974 at a World War 2 aircraft museum. From what I know now the museum is gone. The mosquito was rescued from a farm, but is unable to be restored due to the farmer cutting it up with a chain saw. Whereabouts as of now unknown.