After 10 years of research, the book has finally been published! “Superfortress Graveyard – The B-29s of China Lake,” is the complete history of the World War II (WWII) U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 “Superfortress” […]
Weather was perhaps the major problem facing the Eighth Air Force flying out of England for combat over the European continent. In spite of the efforts of specialists in the weather units,forecasting even a few […]
By Zac Yates After four months the scaffolding has been removed from the nose and forward fuselage of Avro Shackleton WR977 at the Newark Air Museum (NAM) near Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire, England. The Shackleton was […]
By Grant Newman The hard-working management team running the Wings over Wairarapa (WoW) Air Festival cannot seem to get a break. With previous airshows curtailed owing to COVID-19 and Cyclone Gabrielle, this year the team […]
The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) is again holding their “12 Planes of Christmas,” an online giving campaign providing an opportunity to aid in the restoration and maintenance of the aircraft as well as learn more […]
The Planes of Fame Air Museum’s Mitsubishi ‘Zero’ is an A6M5 Model 52, perhaps the most effective variant of the type. The Nakajima Aircraft Company (Nakajima Hikoki Kabushiki Kaisha) produced this example, under license, as […]
By Adam Estes A year ago, we reported on the efforts undertaken by the city of Irvine, California’s efforts to acquire and restore a WWII-veteran Lockheed PV-1 Ventura patrol bomber, Bureau Number (BuNo) 33327 (The […]
Barnstormer. Just that one single word embodies the spirit of adventurers, explorers, heroes, and dreamers not afraid to make their dreams soar. The origin of the term Barnstormer is rooted in military pilots returning from […]
By Adam Estes Of all the aircraft of WWII, few have had quite the cultural impact as the B-17, known in history as the “Memphis Belle.” This veteran of the 91st Bomb Group, 8th Air […]
Two of the rusting, stripped-down passenger jets that once belonged to Olympic Airways (OA), which had been abandoned at the Hellinikon Airport since 2001, were recently acquired by the Cypriot company Zela Aviation. The objective […]
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