The WW1 Aviation Heritage Trust together with YES Young Flyers completed their18-month journey visiting 60+ Primary Schools in Essex with the WW1AHT Simulator in July 2024 – thanks to a grant from the CAA’s Reach For the Sky Initiative. One hundred and thirty-seven schools applied for the day visit so we hope this will become […]
The Best Fighters of WW1 and Their Tactics On 28 Feb 2023, the WW1 AHT Pilots and Friends had their final chat session of the Winter 2033/23. The Session provides a summary of the Scout Development over the 4 years discussed by Year in the previous sessions. It also covered the tactics that evolved as […]
As our Final Chat of this Winter season (22/23), the WW1 AHT pilots and friends will review the best Fighting Scouts of WW1 which cannot be done without framing the progression of aerial warfare from unarmed reconnaissance in 1914 to Wings of Fighters in mortal combat at astonishing altitudes over N France without oxygen by […]
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The WW AHT Panel of Pilots from NZ and UK explored the good, bad and the ugly of both Allied and German Fighting Scouts that graced the skies over N France in 1917 from their experiences of flying them today. From the Albatros to the DH5, the Fokker DR1 to the SE5a, the Sopwith Camel […]
This is the third of our monthly chat sessions where we have been discussing the evolution of the Scout aeroplane as a fighter aircraft year by year with our pilots and their friends that fly them today. 1917 was a crucial year for the development of fighter tactics setting some of the primary principles that […]
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From one who was there on the night. ‘I attended the first session of the WW1 AHT Winter Chats Programme 2022, and it was a fascinating insight into the development of the scout (fighter) aircraft of WW1 during 1914-1915. The panel presentation involved a range of pilots with current experience of flying some of these […]
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 […]
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 […]
