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by James Kightly Over 30 years ago, an exceptional airshow took place in Australia. Here we take a look back at it, while also bringing some of the story up to date. In 1992, following […]
Flight simulators are airplane games that provide a great way for aviation fanatics and airplane enthusiasts to get their fix, especially in this time of limited global travel. Players can challenge themselves by taking to […]
Wright Brothers built their first aircraft for the Army in 1903, airmen have been protecting and serving the United States military ever since. These brave pilots are seen in movies soaring above in their planes, […]
Nothing quite compares to seeing one of the world’s most historic planes up close and personal. Aircraft have played their role in history in a number of ways. They have been instrumental in helping to […]
by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On February 17, 1956, test pilot Herman Richard (“Fish”) Salmon made the first flight of the Lockheed YF-104A service test prototype, Air Force serial number 55-2955 […]
by Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) We are extremely pleased to announce that James Kightly is joining our team here at Vintage Aviation News, where he will take on the role of Commissioning Editor. Kightly […]
by Moreno Aguiari Ten years have flown by. It seems like only yesterday when I realized that the “latest news piece” I was reading in a then-current aviation magazine was already several months old. I […]
by Matt Scales On May 12th, 1945, a P-47 took off for a local flight from an airfield on the South Pacific island now known as Papua New Guinea. Sadly the excursion soon ended in […]
On February 9, 1969, at 11:34 a.m., Boeing Chief Test Pilot Jack Wadell, with Engineering Test Pilots Brien Singleton Wygle, co-pilot, and Jesse Arthur Wallick, flight engineer, took off from Paine Field, Everett, Washington, aboard […]
by Matt Scales On February 4th, 2023, the U.S. Air Force had an unusual mission, a task so atypical to modern warfare that it was almost beyond living memory, having last occurred at the tail […]
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