HONORING OBIE By Stephen Chapis In February 2021, the Ocala, Florida-based American Honor Foundation (AHF) added Vought F4U-4 Corsair BuNo 97359 for their collection. As many readers know, this aircraft is one of the more […]
The internet was abuzz a couple of weeks ago with a video featuring a former Royal Navy BAe Sea Harrier taxiing around an airfield under its own power. While witnessing such a scene would not […]
It has been just over a year since our last report on restoration progress with Claudio Coltri’s combat-veteran Curtiss P-40E Warhawk (41-13570), which has been under rebuild at Pioneer Aero Ltd. in Ardmore, New Zealand […]
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 26, 1925, Lieutenant James Harold Doolittle, Air Service, United States Army, won the Coupe d’Aviation Maritime Jacques Schneider (commonly called the Schneider Trophy) when […]
PRESS RELEASE – On October 30, The Museum of Flight will be the first site to exhibit NASA’s full-scale replicas of the Agency’s newest robotic explorers on Mars—the rover and helicopter, Perseverance and Ingenuity. The […]
PRESS RELEASE – Weekly and daily admission tickets for the 69th edition of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual fly-in convention, are now available online for the event at Wittman Regional Airport in […]
by Richard Mallory Allnutt For the past forty-some years, it is doubtful that anyone with even the vaguest interest in vintage military aircraft could fail to have seen or been moved by the work of […]
The National Naval Aviation Museum has just unveiled their recently-restored, combat-veteran F/A-18C Hornet (BuNo.163508) in a place of honor just outside the Blue Angel Atrium at their main campus in Pensacola, Florida. This Hornet is […]
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. […]
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 20, 1956, Bell Aircraft Corporation Chief Pilot Floyd W. Carlson and Chief Experimental Test Pilot Elton J. Smith made the first flight of the […]
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