Ben Branch
December 11, 2020
The Boeing Stearman Model 75 was the most prolific American biplane trainer aircraft of the Second World War, over 10,000 were built and they were the first aircraft flown by many of America’s WWII…
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Ben Branch
November 19, 2020
This 1944 North American P-51D Mustang is currently for sale, it’s in the midst of a full restoration – once complete it will be powered by a correct Packard V-1650-9 V12 producing 1,315 hp,…
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Ben Branch
October 8, 2020
This table was made using three damaged propellers from a North American T-28 Trojan – they were almost certainly damaged from a belly landing that caused the spinning propellers to be bent backwards by contact…
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Ben Branch
October 4, 2020
This is a 1940 Royal Navy instructional film about the safe operation of ship-based catapults for launching aircraft like the Supermarine Walrus. The film does an excellent job of showing and explaining each step…
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Ben Branch
September 30, 2020
This is the Airfix “Quickbuild Kit” of the legendary Supermarine Walrus, an amphibious biplane that first flew in 1935 and would save the lives of countless aircrews that had ditched in the English Channel…
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Ben Branch
September 5, 2020
The story of the WWII-era Radioplanes can’t be told without mentioning that it was in the Radioplane factory that Marilyn Monroe was discovered, thanks in part to future US President Ronald Reagan who was then…
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Ben Branch
August 29, 2020
This 1:16 scale Sopwith Camel model kit by Hasegawa has breathtaking detail throughout, it’s been designed to be displayed uncovered with no fabric over the wings or fuselage to showcase the intricacy of the…
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Ben Branch
August 16, 2020
“How To Fly The B-26 Airplane” is an original WWII training film for new trainee pilots, to help familiarize them with the legendary Martin B-26 Marauder. The B-26 was one of the most common American…
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Ben Branch
August 9, 2020
Spitfire Sisters is a documentary about the female members of the British ATA, or Air Transport Auxiliary, a civilian organisation of pilots who were responsible for ferrying military aircraft around the United Kingdom during…
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Ben Branch
August 2, 2020
This one hour documentary shows the restoration of a WWII era De Havilland Mosquito, from an empty abandoned shell to a fully equipped aircraft taking off for its first test flights since the early 1960s…
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Ben Branch
August 1, 2020
The most memorable vehicles in the M*A*S*H TV series were almost certainly the twin Bell 47 choppers that featured heavily in the opening credits – the helicopter you see here was the one closest to the camera…
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Ben Branch
July 8, 2020
This is a full set of pistons and conrods from a Russian Vedeneyev M14P aircraft radial engine, they’re fully assembled and the whole lot is available for sale on eBay for the not insignificant price of…
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