Please click here for an article about the remarkable achievement of landing on Helvellyn, and the history of aviation after 1919 at Windermere. The first photo is of landing on Helvellyn on 22 December 1926, the sole witness being the eminent classicist E R Dodds;...

There is now a new page on this website devoted to Clifford Fleming-Williams, who was a pioneer of making drawings from the air, a pioneer in model aviation, an inventor, a seaplane ground school instructor, artist and general manager, a seaplane designer, a Royal...

Please click here for an article about reasons given against flying at Windermere in 1911-1912.

We now have an interactive 3D model of the replica Waterbird.

On the 108th anniversary of Waterbird’s first flight, there is a new page on our website about the history of Aviators’ Certificates and the 23 Certificates accomplished at Windermere.

There is an exhibition at the Heaton Cooper Archive Gallery in Grasmere which includes the original tablet listing members of the Fell & Rock Climbing Club killed in World War 1. Arthur Wakefield was President of the Club when the memorial was dedicated in 1924....

There is a new page on our website about Windermere’s heritage of the Catalina flying boat.

Today, it is 100 years since Flight Lieutenant Wavell Wakefield landed a Sopwith Pup on HMS Vindictive.

There is a new page on our website about Winston Churchill’s important influence on Windermere aviation.

Hornsea Museum is running an exhibition, Flying Sailors 1915-1919, to share the story of the Royal Naval Air Service base on Hornsea Mere, until the Autumn of 2019. It commences with an Open Day on 28 July from 10:00am to 4:00pm when there is free entry. A Royal Naval...

Challenge: Aviation history recognising that Glenn Curtiss ‘The Father of US Naval Aviation’ invented the step-hydroplane for a seaplane is being challenged. Ian Gee has collated documentation which, he claims, proves that the step-hydroplane was in fact discovered...

She flies! We are delighted to announce that the replica Waterbird has made her first flights as a landplane.

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Royal Air Force, please see the sections of this website about Flight Lieutenants Cooper Pattinson and Wavell Wakefield. Whilst serving in the RAF, on 10 May 1918 Pattinson was a pilot of a Felixstowe flying...

To commemorate the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, here is the story of a pilot named Donald Macaskie, who qualified for his Aviator’s Certificate at Windermere. Donald Stuart Calthorpe Macaskie (1896 – 1987), born at Headingley, Yorkshire, of The Red House,...

Following historical precedent, a Windermere Boatbuilder is making the stepped float for the replica Waterbird. Founder of Franklin Eldridge Yachts, Richard Pierce, and his son James, who built wooden yachts and steamers at Ferry Nab, Windermere in the late 20th...