The South Australian Aviation Museum near Adelaide may be little known outside of Australia, but they have an important collection of nearly two dozen aircraft, some of which are exceedingly rare. They currently have three […]
PRESS RELEASE – The Museum of Flight’s recently-restored Boeing 727 prototype will make its first flight in 25 years on March 2 – weather permitting – at about 10:30 a.m.; the flight will also be […]
Gregory ‘Pappy’ Boyington, the legendary leader of VMF-214, Blacksheep Squadron, is one of those characters in military lore whose deeds and abilities have largely been swallowed up by the myth that has grown up around the […]
The New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Connecticut is set to hold one of its famous Open Cockpit Days on Saturday, March 12th. The museum is one of the rare examples which regularly allows the […]
PRESS RELEASE – The 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor’s “Day of Infamy” will be commemorated at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2016, with flying activities and other highlights recalling the events and heroism of that fateful day, […]
PRESS RELEASE – Military aviation history will come to life through a new monthly series presented by the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Dixie Wing at the Wing’s headquarters. The public is invited to join the […]
Article by Luigino Caliaro, photos by Luca Marin On February 4th, following a thorough rebuild by owner Andrea Rossetto, a former Italian Army Cessna O-1E Bird Dog took off on her first post-restoration flight into the crisp […]
The National Warplane Museum in Geneseo, New York has achieved a major coups in gaining the lease of the late David Tallichet’s Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress serial 44-83546. Known universally now as “The Movie” Memphis […]
By SrA Vernon Fowler, Between 1941 and 1946, there were roughly 1,000 African-American pilots trained at the segregated Tuskegee Army Airfield in Tuskegee, Alabama. Of that number remains just a fraction of Tuskegee Airmen still […]
PRESS RELEASE – Residents of Sarasota and the surrounding community will have an opportunity to get their hands on history March 2 through 6 when the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) flies into Sarasota-Bradenton airport for […]
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