There will be a full-length documentary on the More4 channel on Thursday 1 December at 9pm. This Warplane Workshop episode will take viewers behind the scenes of our Project to create the replica Waterbird seaplane.

We are privileged to have received the Desmond Penrose Silver Salver for the vintage aeroplane of the year from the Vintage Aircraft Club.

It was a great honour to have received The Robert Pleming Memorial Award for Innovation 2022, including a magnificent trophy and a cash prize of £500, from Aviation Heritage UK.   

We are delighted to have been awarded The Bremont Special Recognition Award 2022 by The National Transport Trust. The presentation was made by Edd China.

The replica Waterbird Demonstration Flights have taken place to great public and media interest. Credit: BBC North West

Demonstration Flights of the replica Waterbird are due to take place on 22nd and 23rd September at Windermere. For details, please click here.

Please click here for an article about Why a Short Sunderland flying boat factory was built at White Cross Bay, Windermere in 1941-1942.

110 years ago, at Windermere, Gertrude Bacon became the first woman in the world to fly as a passenger in a hydro-aeroplane.

We are overjoyed that the replica Waterbird has flown successfully as a seaplane at Windermere. Putting the 1911 replica Waterbird into perspective in relation to other current airworthy examples of seaplanes in the world - original or replica, there is nothing else...

Today is the centenary of Dr. Arthur Wakefield climbing to 23,000 feet on the 1922 Mount Everest Expedition.

Now there is a page on our website in tribute to the 14 Canadians who in 1916 trained to be seaplane pilots at Royal Naval Air Station Windermere. Please visit the Canadian Pilots page.

Today, it is 110 years since the first flight of Waterbird at Windermere. For a Timeline, please click here

Waterbird will be featured in a full-length documentary on the Yesterday channel on Thursday 29th April at 9pm. The special Warbird Workshop episode will take viewers behind the scenes of our project to create a replica Waterbird, charting the project and the...

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...