by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On October 12, 1944, First Lieutenant Charles Elwood Yeager, Air Corps, Army of the United States (A.U.S.), shot down five Bf 109s in one sortie becoming “ace […]
by Stephen Chapis In the early months of modern Ufology, a pair of Air National Guard F-51 Mustangs engaged UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) in two separate incidents that became known as “The Mantell Incident” and […]
The renowned North American P-51 Mustang will take center stage this coming Saturday during a Living Aviation History Day, part of a regular series which the Commemorative Air Force’s Dixie Wing hosts at Atlanta Regional Airport–Falcon Field […]
Lopes Hope is the latest early model Mustang to take to the air following a spectacular restoration…Warbird Digest profiled two other fantastic early model Mustang restorations in the last decade: Warhawk Air Museum’s P-51C Boise […]
Three iconic World War II aircraft will bring history alive May 6-7 at the Greenville Downtown Airport (GMU), Airport Rd Ext., Greenville, S.C. The Minnesota Wing and the Dixie Wing of the Commemorative Air Force […]
By Mike Deep To say the scale of Sun ‘n Fun is staggering doesn’t quite do the annual fly-in and airshow justice. For one week in April, over one thousand aircraft—and hundreds of thousands of […]
Photography & Words by Matt Savage Shortly after 2.30pm on Friday December 16th, 2016 in Tyabb, Victoria, a crowd of over 100 people watched as Commonwealth CA-18 Mustang PR.22 A68-199 took to the skies on her […]
Tickets for The Great Yorkshire AirFest 2016 are now on sale. The festival, which will take place across the 2nd and 3rd July at Leeds East Airport (formerly known as RAF Church Fenton), is expected […]
By TSgt Brandon Shapiro When 93-year-old Fred Roberts walked into the bar at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, all eyes turned toward him and all conversations stopped. Roberts was a World War II P-51 […]
PRESS RELEASE – In conjunction with the special exhibit Fighting for the Right to Fight: African American Experiences in World War II, The National WWII Museum is welcoming an authentic, newly restored P-51D Mustang fighter […]
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