Interesting article in today’s Sunday Times
http://ww1aviationheritagetrust.co.uk/wordpress/
ambitious plans – and clearly a significant link to a well known New Zealand film director
By: ErrolC - 12th January 2014 at 18:23
You may start your wishlists now – current aircraft registered to TVAL at
http://www.regosearch.com/search/results/?&co=nz&Nf4=owner&Of4=eq&Vf4=+The+Vintage+Aviator+Limited
Most interesting page on website is probably http://ww1aviationheritagetrust.co.uk/wordpress/?page_id=31
Project
In the Spring of 2014, the first of a series of documentaries about the evolution of the aviation in WW1 will be made in New Zealand by the 14-18 Aviation Heritage Trust. The Trust owns ~40 WW1 aircraft which have been built and are operated by the Vintage Aviator Ltd (TVAL). The intention is to make a film about the technical and tactical developments for each year of the Great War and the air crews involved.
Each year starting in March/April 2014, subject to funding, the aircraft in each film and shown below for next year 2014 will be brought to UK to tell the story at airshows and commemorative events in the form of air displays, flypasts and static diorama. Some of the aircraft will come from aircraft collections in the USA – Fantasy of Flight and the Javier Arango Air Collection
It is intended to seek funding also to present an aircraft each year to the nation in the same way our forebears did in the Great War. It is planned that ultimately these aircraft will be based at the Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome in Essex supported by an apprenticeship scheme to foster the preservation and restoration of WW1 aircraft.
By: ozplane - 12th January 2014 at 16:11
Stow Maries with any luck.
By: AlanR - 12th January 2014 at 13:54
Interesting article, I wonder where it will lead ?
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January 12, 2014 at 10:57 am