Clyde North Aeronautical Preservation Group in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | Museum

Clyde North Aeronautical Preservation Group

Locality: Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 421 668 172

Address: Shop 8, 51/53 Tobruk St 2650 Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.cnapg.org

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24.01.2022 Mustang Monday, how about the Guatemala FAG having a P-51 Mustang aerobatic team back in the day. Wonder if any videos existing out there to see if there routine is similar to the Horsemen Routine? Just curious. (Photo by FAG via Gabriel Contreras)

19.01.2022 Newsreel footage of wrecked Italian aircraft and captured pilots that took part in a raid against Britain on 11 November 1940. The film also includes shots of S...quadron Leader Robert Stanford Tuck and pilots of No. 257 Squadron at RAF Martlesham Heath in Suffolk, displaying souvenirs of their action. On this day, the Corpo Aereo Italiano saw its first major combat against the RAF. A formation of ten BR.20 bombers escorted by forty CR.42 biplane fighters set off to attack the Essex port town of Harwich, but were intercepted by Hurricanes of Nos. 17, 46, and 257 Squadrons. In the ensuing melee, three BR.20s and three CR.42s were lost. There were no RAF losses. Winston Churchill later quipped that the Italian aircraft "might have found better employment defending the fleet at Taranto", referring to the successful British raid that took place later on the same day. Source: British Pathé

17.01.2022 Bill Eames, Royal Air Force (1) 570 Squadron 1923 - November 16, 2020... As a pilot in the Royal Air Force Flight Lieutenant Bill Eames was involved with Pegasus Bridge and OPERATION MARKET GARDEN. Bill took part in Supply Drop operations where supplies were dropped to Maquis in occupied France. In the early hours of June 6, 1944, D-Day, Bill was flying a Short Stirling aircraft which was towing a Horsa Glider full of troops. The glider was released on the eastern side of Sword Beach near the town of Ouistreham. On Tuesday September 19, 1944, he was wounded by gunfire but was able to fly back to England where he spent some time in Hospital in Oxford. Born in Enniskillen in 1923, Bill got to fly for the first time at the age of 12, when CW Scott’s International Air Circus visited Enniskillen. My friend George McVitty and I both paid seven shillings and sixpence for the flight, Bill recalls. I thought it was great. George and I later joined the Air Force. George was killed over Germany before I had even finished my training. At Portora Royal School, Bill was a member of the Officer Training Corps. He joined the RAF in 1941 and travelled to the USA for secret training. We were dispersed to different training schools. My group went to the US Air Corps, and I was nine months in Souther Field, Georgia, Bill says. From there he was sent to Toronto. On his return to the UK, Bill was stationed at RAF Ashbourne in Derby, flying Whitley and Albemarle aircraft. He later joined 570 Squadron at RAF Hurn near Bournemouth. His squadron specialised in supply drops to the French resistance operatives, generally at low level, at night. He also towed the Horsa glider. In September 1944, Bill was involved in OPERATION MARKET GARDEN, the ill-fated Allied attempt to secure the Rhine crossing at Arnhem. On the first two days I was dropping gliders carrying troops into the Arnhem area, Bill says. On the third day I was wounded very badly. There was a lot of flak. The troops on the ground were very hard pressed. We were detailed to drop in as accurately as possible, so had to fly as low as 500ft. My plane was hit by flak. I was struck on the leg and arm, and parts of the plane were very badly damaged. References: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-54960231 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-50932306 https://connor.anglican.org//it-is-important-to-remember-/ https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk//first-minister-express https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005n19

16.01.2022 Today is the 11th November, and here in Australia is NAIDOC Week (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee). For this Memorial Day, I can't th...ink of a better commemoration than the remarkable work being undertaken by a small team refinding the stories of Australia's mostly forgotten Aboriginal airmen and women - here those from World War Two. Credit to the Australian War Memorial for supporting Garth O'Connell and colleagues, and note this work is ongoing - there's more to be told, a very important example of making 'lest we forget' real. The battles these men had to fight to be allowed to be able to defend Australia (that would not defend them) are a telling example of great selflessness and citizenship - something else where the 1940s Australian state failed the continent's oldest inhabitants. In the order Garth presents them, here's Roy Hill; Leonard Victor Waters; James Terence Sinclair; James Stanley Gooch AFC MID; Aubrey Maurer, RFVR; David Valentine Paul DFC; and Arnold Lockyer. The video is a powerful hour. Well worth a watch.

14.01.2022 A fantastic announcement today, Flying Legends 2021 will take place at Sywell Aerodrome, Northampton, over 10th and 11th July. Same amazing airshow, at an aweso...me new venue! Looking forward to seeing formations like these at Sywell, the new home of the world's greatest airshow! #flyinglegends #sywell #sywellaerodrome #flyinglegends2021 #flyinglegends21 #flyinglegendssywell #airshows #warbirdlovers

10.01.2022 An Outstanding Pilot - Dudley Marrows DSO DFC Sunderland III W6077/U left Pembroke Dock in Wales in the early morning of July 30th 1943 on a routine anti-subm...arine patrol. At the controls sat Flight Officer Dudley Marrows. The sortie was uneventful; a few suspicious looking Spanish fishing boats the only sights to report. Flying home and low on fuel, the crew picked up exchanges between three German U-boats and some RAF and USAAF aircraft. The Royal Navy had a support group of five sloops on the way. The fighting intensified, and before long, Marrows was ordered to divert W6077/U to the Bay of Biscay and join the battle. What happened next has been described as the greatest air and sea U-boat battle of the Second World War. Read more here: https://vwma.org.au//an-outstanding-pilot---dudley-marrows

09.01.2022 11 November 1944 - RAAF rescued downed USAAF B-25 crew off Wewak: