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In addition to our usual articles we're also using this push to launch a new GAR product, blogGAR, which is intended to give the team an extra avenue through which they can share their thoughts and aviation experiences with you. Please be aware that blogGAR will be updated whenever someone has something new to share, so please keep checking back regularly.
Global Aviation Resource and the Dawlish Carnival Air Show are today delighted to announce the launch of an all new website in support of the event. But, despite the air show’s huge popularity and near cult-status, the future looks uncertain. Gareth Stringer spoke to organiser Kevin Wills. Images as credited.
Newark Air Museum is home to a number of significant aircraft and housed on what remains of the former WWII airfield of Winthorpe in eastern Nottinghamshire. Gareth Stringer made a maiden visit to the museum to report for GAR. Images as credited.
Global Aviation Resource travelled to RAF Coningsby for an inside look at the work of 29(R) Squadron, the unit tasked with training pilots to fly the RAF's most potent aircraft ever - the Eurofighter Typhoon. Words - Gareth Stringer / Images - as credited.
Best known for building other people’s designs under license, India’s Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is also increasingly designing and building its own products. The company is headquartered in Bangalore and maintains a small heritage centre at its home base. Paul Dunn visits for GAR.
With a 3000 metre runway, Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield Airport is capable of handling the biggest of aircraft. This was put to the test when the biggest of them all paid a welcome visit on 16th February for a much needed cargo operation. Glenn Beasley was there for GAR.
After the obligatory lunch it was time to visit a complete unknown which could easily turn out to be the biggest bust of the trip. Paul Filmer takes us on part four and day three and a half of his Siberian trip.
Last year's Waddington International Airshow was one of the best attended events of its kind in the UK. Two days of solid flying and sunshine tempted 170,000 people through the gates of the RAF station, despite the huge disappointment that saw Vulcan XH558 remain firmly grounded for the entire weekend. Gareth Stringer travelled to Waddington to find out how things are progressing ahead of the 2010 event. Images as credited.
Located close to the San Francisco bay area, Travis AFB is a busy airfield, home to several squadrons of transport and tanker aircraft. It also has a good museum on base which Paul Dunn visited for GAR.
Air Atlantique's Classic Flight owns one of the most impressive collections of airworthy and potentially airworthy aircraft in the UK and, for many years, has dedicated itself to displaying these aircraft at airshows and giving people the opportunity to fly in them. Global Aviation Resource travelled to Coventry Airport to learn more. Words - Gareth Stringer. Images - as credited.
A feature of the New York landscape for nearly 30 years, the USS Intrepid has recently been given a multimillion dollar facelift. Paul Dunn pays a visit to the veteran aircraft carrier to see what has changed.
Context is everything. Politics, business, sport, relationships – everything is subject to background environments. Airshows are no different and guest contributor Mark Broadbent offers his thoughts in this, his first piece for Global Aviation Resource.
Our alarm clocks were set early in preparation for one of my personal highlights of the trip and one of the main reasons I decided to join this adventure. Paul Filmer shares the third installment from his trip to Siberia.
Global Aviation Resource is delighted to exclusively reveal the chosen colour scheme for the 2010 RAF Hawk display aircraft.
Boeing’s Queen of the Skies recently notched up an incredible 40 years of airline service. GAR’s Paul Dunn is a huge fan of the 747. But then, he is unashamedly rather biased! Images as credited.









