To understand the development of the Scout (Fighter) aeroplanes in WW1, you have to understand the air concepts of the day and the fragility of their craft at the onset of the War. Aeroplane v aeroplane was far from their thoughts. The early designers were merely trying to elevate a cavalry reconnaissance officer to a […]
Scout (Fighter) Development 1914-1915 – Thursday 13th October, 2022 – 1930 (UK) £5 +VAT to learn some interesting stuff and to help keep our aeroplanes flying! Join the WW1 Aviation Heritage Trust Pilots JeanMichel Munn, Stu Goldspink, Jonathan Marten-Hale, Rob Gauld Galliers, and John Gilbert together with John Lanham (NZ), and David Bremner (Grandpa’s Scout) […]
Sunday 4th Sep 22 was a chance for the Shuttleworth Faithful to see our Albatros display for the first time despite arriving in England in 2018. Once again it was paired up with another icon of WW1, this time the Trust’s Nieuport 17. It was a chance to re-enact the eighth of 20 kills of […]
On the Saturday night before the Vintage Air Show at Shuttleworth on 4th Sep 22 two iconic WW1 aeroplanes got airborne for a bit of air-to-air photography – the WW1 Aviation Heritage Trust’s dark and forbidding Albatros DVa in the black livery of Lt Otto Kissinberth and David Bremner in his grandfather’s Scout. With the […]
WW1 Aviation Heritage’s 2 V-Strutters will be going head to head on Sunday 4th Sep at the Old Warden Vintage Display. It is the first time that the Albatros will display at Old Warden despite being assembled there on arrival from New Zealand in 2018. Registration and COVID have consumed the interval. These two aircraft […]
Recently, the WW1 Aviation Heritage Trust received a £105 donation from Paypal. Did you know that you can nominate a Charity of your choice if you are a PAYPAL user? Set the WW1 Aviation Heritage Trust up as your Charity in PAYPAL and help the Trust keep our aeroplanes flying!
STEM for All Youth Organisations and Private Events Earlier this month, the WW1 Aviation Heritage Trust rolled out its first School STEM Day at Shoreham College. It was aimed at Year 6 focussing on the history of the inventor of the Simulator in 1915, Major Lanoe Hawker VC, DSO, RFC, and D&T pupils studying his […]
The WW1 AHT pilots and friends invite you to join a chat session on rotary engines as they developed in WW1. JeanMichel Munn will be leading the chat having been the Trust’s pilot flying the Sopwith Snipe when it was in the UK 2015 – 2017. The Snipe is powered by the Bentley BR2a – […]
Our chat session about the Albatros is now available to watch at your leisure. Click here to watch
The WW1 AHT will gather for their 9th chat session this time looking at the most famous Fighters to emerge from the Albatros FlugZeugWerke – the DI through to the DVa that the Trust operates. We will be joined again by Dodge Bailey from the Shuttleworth, John Lanham from TVAL and Scout Builder David Bremner. […]
