Well, the thread heading does not seem to restrict the “Old Airshow Programmes” to British so… I was trying to find some of my pre-WWII British aero programmes and did not have much luck,,,yet. But I did come across this fairly rare one. This International Aviation Meet took place only one month after the very first major Intl. air meet, at Reims. This is programme for the First Johannisthal Meeting in Berlin, 26 September-3 Oktober 1909.
Very well done at 50 pages and pages with color (oops!-Colour 😉 ) and photos. Nice to see it in this condition after 98 years!

Well, it is not what you usually think of when someone says “Stearman.”
It is a Stearman-Hammond Y, probably with the Menasco C-4 inverted four cyl engine. Something Stearman tried, just before WWII. (And I “think” they had hopes of reviving it, after the war-but the market was flooded with surplus aircraft then)There was one sitting derelict, at Flushing NYC small airport for decades (circa 1960s and 70s) near my home, where my father kept his Monocoupe and Navion.
You can GXXgle for additional photos and stats.

(Sorry for typo/corrected-spelled Stearman/Stearmond!)

WWI Oygen generators

No problem for those Fokker D.VIIs and other German fighters to lurk up high, in WWI. They also had special high altitude mods for the various engines.
Here is a photo of an original WWI German Oxygen generator. I had several of them,new in original wooden crates. This one dated 2/8/17 on the metal ID tag. They are now all in museums. The attached photo clearly shows how it was used.

Blenheim IV

I’m pretty sure that this “other’ Blenheim IV is still in existence, and, possibly, restored by now..I had posted my photo of it in the post about our Lysander memories, when we purchased our complete Lysander and spares from a farm in Western Canada, circa 1969. (You will note the Lysander to the right of the Blenheim IV) I believe this Blenheim was later traded to a UK museum and there were several magazine mentions of the transaction, at the time. But I have lost track of where it is, today.

“modern” era Lysander memories

It has been some time since our Lysander project involvments, but these are some memories without going back to our photo collections. I shall look in one of these many boxes of loose photos, and see if I can find some (of the approx 50) photos we have when we first found and moved “our” Lysander from Manitoba, to the East coast U.S, to UK. The photos and our correspondence showed several Lysanders on the gear with wings removed, and spare engines, There were also several bomobers at this farmer’s collection.
We arranged to buy the “package” we considered to be in the best condition for restoration, and sent some workers to Western Canada to load it up and bring it back to East Coast (circa 1969?). I well remember that they told us it took them two weeks JUST to LOAD the project, as the middle of the Canadian Winter allowed them to only work for about 15 minutes at a time, outdoors! Lots of smashed wing ribs and moving damage PRIOR to our finding them, but structualy sound and not damaged from crashes etc.I MUST find those photos of the choices we had. We also bought a spare engine (firewall forward, as I recall) and I seem to remember they were Mercury IXs. We sold them to UK private collector Phillip Mann, who had several interesting aircraft at the time. (one being the rare Civilian Coupe, which we provided some parts for his A.S. Genet engine, and we shipped him two Rearwins, including one of the popular Pan Am Instrument trainers-the Rearwin 8135T-ALSO-beautifully restored by Personal Plane Services))Mr. Mann had an excellent relationship with the Bianchis, at Personal Plane Services, and they sent us regular photo updates of the progress of this privately funded restoration to airworthiness. I recall the excitement at having Dunlop provide assistance with original tire molds, at one point) After several years this Lysander DID fly again. I believe that the great Neil Williams flew it for Mr. Mann. I recall that when Neil met with tragedy, in another aircraft, that all or most of the “paperwork” for this Lysander was with him and was lost. Mr. Mann later sold the Lysander to another well-known UK collector (don’t recall at the moment-was it Doug Arnold?) who could better deal with this lost paperwork situation. As Mann mentioned that the only way this one could now be approved for flight, required the virtual equivalent of an Annual inspection bfore each flight, at least until things were sorted out. This is from memory, and may not be entirely accurate, some 30 years later..

Here is L5807 at Kalafrana.