March 2023 - Waterbird Org

Waterbird: Wings Over Windermere book now available to buy!

Mar 30, 2023

Our book ‘Waterbird: Wings Over Windermere’ is now available to buy! Early in the morning on 25th November 1911, an Avro Curtiss-type floatplane took off from a hangar at Hill of Oaks, on Windermere, to make history. ‘Waterbird,’ commissioned by Edward...

Painting of ‘Waterbird’ as a landplane

Mar 27, 2023

There are no photos known of flight-testing as a landplane at Brooklands. This painting, by Stephen Chard GAvA, depicts the scene.

It is 110 years since a Patent was awarded to Edward Wakefield for the ‘stepped’ float.

Mar 18, 2023

It is 110 years since a Patent was awarded to Edward Wakefield for the ‘stepped’ float.

Waterbird: Wings Over Windermere book now available to buy!

Painting of ‘Waterbird’ as a landplane

It is 110 years since a Patent was awarded to Edward Wakefield for the ‘stepped’ float.

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