BlogGAR – Modelling, Meteors and aviation nostalgia
Gareth returns to GAR with tales of scale modelling, Meteors and some thoughts on aviation nostalgia and what the future might hold for GAR.
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Author: Gareth
Aviation History – ‘A life in the air – the amazing untold story of Noel Barker’
When one of my dad’s oldest friends sent me his own father’s aviation story I quickly realised that it was one of the most fascinating tales I had read for some time and, amazingly, had never before been published. Knowing it had to be shared, I asked Peter Barker, for that is who wrote the words you see below, if he would entrust Global Aviation Resource to do just that. I am eternally grateful that he said yes. So, we present to you a great, until today untold, aviation story – that of Noel Barker and his life in the air.
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Military Aviation – Royal Air Force Puma Retirement (Part 2) – The History of the RAF Puma Force
After 54 years of sterling service, the Royal Air Force’s Puma helicopters completed their final flights last week as the type headed into retirement, in the UK at least. Gareth Stringer looks back at the Puma’s history with a selection of photography from the GAR archives and friends.
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Military Aviation: The last F-15 Eagles in Europe have flown the nest
Since May 1977 the F-15 Eagle has been a familiar sight in European skies. Alas it is a sight that is now no more, with RAF Lakenheath’s 493rd Fighter Squadron (FS) ‘The Grim Reapers’ having being replaced by the Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II with the newly reactivated 495th FS. Gareth Stringer takes a look at the history of the F-15 Eagle in Europe, with images from the GAR team.
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Obituary – Dale ‘Snort’ Snodgrass
One of aviation’s true legends passed away at the weekend when Dale ‘Snort’ Snodgrass was killed in a crash at an airport in Idaho. Gareth Stringer takes a look at his career.
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