This coming Saturday, September 4, 2021, visitors at the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California will have the chance to see their Curtiss P-40N Warhawk fly over the airfield. While built towards a U.S. Army […]
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On August 31, 1956, the first production Boeing KC-135A Stratotanker, 55-3118, named City of Renton, made its first flight with company test pilots Alvin Melvin (“Tex”) […]
The B-29 Doc History Restored Tour will resume the 2021 tour season with stops in Albuquerque, NM, Chino, CA, and Inyokern, CA, in September and October. B-29 Doc, one of only two B-29 Superfortresses still […]
After being out of action for more than a year, one of New Zealand’s most iconic vintage military aircraft is undergoing preparations for her return to the Southern Hemisphere’s biggest warbird air show – Warbirds […]
Since his childhood, Randy Malmstrom has had a passion for aviation history and historic military aircraft in particular. He has a particular penchant for documenting specific airframes with a highly detailed series of walk-around images […]
Our good friend John Parker from WarbirdsOnline in Australia recently put together a nice piece which focuses on a pair of significant, although often overlooked aviation museums located on the grounds of the former key Battle […]
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On August 24, 1961, at Edwards Air Force Base, California, the legendary Jacqueline Cochran flew a Northrop Talon (T-38A-30-NO 60-0551) to an average speed of 1,358.6 […]
Of all the consequential battles which took place in the 20th century, it’s doubtful that any loom larger in significance, regarding our collective freedom, than the Normandy Invasion of June 5th/6th, 1944. Better known as […]
Technically the C-130 Hercules is not a Warbird just yet, because it’s still operational within several of air arms across the globe. However, it’s such an iconic aircraft that every news item featuring its current […]
As many of our readers will be well aware, Avro Lancaster B.VII NX611 Just Jane is under restoration to airworthy condition with the Lincoln Aviation Heritage Center at former RAF East Kirkby in Lincolnshire, England. […]
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