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A VETERAN’S STORY: Flying Fabric and Piloting Plywood

June 19, 2017 Vintage Aviation News 0

By Pete Mecca Like a deadly cobra, colorful anti-aircraft tracers swivel and coil around your aircraft; the flak is thick as molasses, and you and your passengers are going down. The normal descent is 72 […]

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EC-121 “Warning Star” Moving to the Yankee Air Museum

June 19, 2017 Vintage Aviation News 12

As previously reported HERE by WarbirdsNews, the Yankee Air Museum has launched the “The Warning Star Rescue Project” to save a Lockheed EC-121K Warning Star, and move it to their facility in Ypsilanti, Michigan. A team has […]

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Newly-Restored Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik Flies in Russia

June 19, 2017 Vintage Aviation News 8

On June 16th, 2017, a newly restored Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik took the skies over the Siberian Research Institute of Aviation (SibNIA) airfield in Novosibirsk, Russia. This WWII vintage attack aircraft is only the second of its type currently […]

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The First Flight of the Roseland Spitfire

June 18, 2017 Vintage Aviation News 0

By Dave O’Malley Arnold Roseland was just 28 years old when he died in an aerial gunfight over Normandy in the summer of 1944. He had fought both the Japanese in the Aleutians and the […]

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The Immortal DC-3 Still Used for Modern Flight Testing

June 16, 2017 Vintage Aviation News 6

As most WarbirdsNews readers are well aware, the Douglas DC-3, along with its more prolific military variants, is an extraordinarily capable aircraft. Adapted from the Douglas Sleeper Transport, or DST, Donald Douglas could never have imagined […]

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Breckenridge Air Show Report

June 15, 2017 Vintage Aviation News 4

For many in the southwest, the word Breckenridge evokes memories of high flying warbird airshows and great camaraderie between pilots, operators and fans. After a 21 year hiatus, one of the most well attended and […]

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13th Bomb Squadron: “Appropriating” Bomber Once Again

June 15, 2017 Vintage Aviation News 0

Nearly 75 years ago, the 13th Bomber Squadron was anxious to take the fight back to the Japanese after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Their only issue? They were without any aircraft. Forward deployed at […]

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HARS Wirraway Restoration Update

June 13, 2017 Vintage Aviation News 2

By Phil Buckley A rare CAC Wirraway CA-3 Mark II is under rebuild within the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society’s workshops at Albion Park Airport, south of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. As most readers will know, […]

Brig. Gen. Paul Tibbets IV Flies B-29 “Doc”

June 12, 2017 Vintage Aviation News 1

  Wichita’s beloved B-29 Superfortress, “Doc”, took to the skies yet again June 9, from McConnell Air Force Base, this time with an added aspect of historical significance and Air Force heritage. Sitting in the […]

“Wings of Freedom Tour” to Visit The Museum of Flight

June 8, 2017 Vintage Aviation News 2

The steady rumble of World War II airplanes will resonate at The Museum of Flight June 23-25, when the Collings Foundation “Wings of Freedom Tour” will visit The Museum of Flight. Ground tours and flights […]

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PRESS RELEASE B-29 Doc will make a return trip to EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, WI, this summer as a featured performer and static display aircraft on Boeing Plaza. Doc, one of only two remaining B-29 […]

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TBM Avenger Project Arrives at Fagen Fighters

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