Warbirds of Great Britain’s Curtiss P-40N N9950 at Biggin Hill on October 9, 1991. Rebuilt by Aero Trader at Chino, California (with its Allison engine rebuilt by the late John Sand­berg’s JRS Enterprises at Minneapolis), the former Tallmantz Collection aircraft arrived in the UK this spring. It is expected to appear soon in a Flying Tigers colour scheme.

Syria tends to be off the beaten track for most aviation enthusiasts, but London reader Brian Murray has sent us some photographs taken recently at the Damascus Military Museum. Several aircraft, including the Harvard shown, the Cub, an Aero L-29 Delfin and a Wallis autogyro, are on outdoor display amongst trees, giving the impression, as Murray puts it, of having been "dropped vertically into their overgrown landscape". The Harvard has clearly had evergreen saplings planted right next to its fuselage after it had been positioned - presumably to provide growing protection from the Syrian sun.

Intact but suffering from the effects of the British climate, having been stored in a barn since 1970, de Havilland Moth Minor G-AFOJ was acquired and recovered by the Mosquito Aircraft Museum in September 1991. One of only six surviving D.H.94s in the UK, 'OJ was obtained after many years of negotiation; the museum hopes to restore it to airworthiness, and Grapevine will be watching its progress.

Syria tends to be off the beaten track for most aviation enthusiasts, but London reader Brian Murray has sent us some photographs taken recently at the Damascus Military Museum. Several aircraft, including the Harvard, the Cub shown, an Aero L-29 Delfin and a Wallis autogyro, are on outdoor display amongst trees, giving the impression, as Murray puts it, of having been "dropped vertically into their overgrown landscape". The Harvard has clearly had evergreen saplings planted right next to its fuselage after it had been positioned - presumably to provide growing protection from the Syrian sun.

Also on display in the Berlin exhibition is Raab-Katzenstein R.K.9a D-1519, restored in East Germany during the late Eighties.

This black-and-white striped Halberstadt CL IV, recently rebuilt from unidentified parts for the Smithsonian, is currently on temporary exhibition in the disused Hamburger Bahnhof railway station on the old border between East and West Berlin. Staged by the Museum fur Verkehr und Technik, the exhibition runs until December 1, 1991.

Another Berlin exhibit is the Deutsches Museum’s ex-Krakow Jeannin Stahltaube.