Vintage Aviation News

MiG Fury Fighters’ North American FJ-4B Fury: The Last of its Kind

August 23, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 12

Jake Peterson Reports: Every year a gathering of people and aircraft come together in one big celebration of freedom, technology, and patriotism. That event is EAA Airventure in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. For one week people of […]

Air Show Report: D-Day Ohio 2013

August 22, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 3

D-Day Ohio, held annually in Conneaut, Ohio is fast becoming one of America’s premier living history events, featuring the most realistic and educational reenactment of the events of June 6th, 1944, D-Day. Since 1999, this […]

NASA Martin WB-57F Canberra Returns to Skies, Making its First Flight in 41 Years

August 21, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 5

All too often when planes are sent to long-term storage by the military it’s just a pause along their path to the grave. While the US has the advantage of desert storage facilities that slow […]

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Alberta Aviation Museum Unveils Their Canadair CF-104 Starfighter Restoration

August 20, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 1

Fittingly for the fastest plane ever fielded by the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Alberta Aviation Museum of Edmonton completed the restoration of their Canadair CF-104 Starfighter in what seems like record time, with the […]

World’s Only Flying Avro Anson Confirmed for Warbirds Over Wanaka 2014

August 19, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 2

The only remaining airworthy Avro Anson Mk I in the world, MH-120 registration ZK-RRA, has been confirmed to fly at the biennial Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow in Wanaka, New Zealand being held April 18-20 […]

Necessity Is The Mother of Invention: Paper Drop Tanks of WWII

August 18, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 6

Faced with wartime metal shortages, and a need to extend the range of fighter craft heading to Europe, the British came up with an ingenious design for auxiliary drop tanks, making them out of resorcinol […]

Air Zoo to Restore Lake Michigan-Retrieved FM-2 Wildcat

August 17, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 1

We’ve been following the story of General Motors-built FM-2 Wildcat BuNo 57039, that was lost to the waters of Lake Michigan almost 70 years ago, from its retrieval from the bottom of Lake Michigan late […]

Spitfire Fly-Over Honors Tony Gaze, Australian WWII Ace

August 16, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

Temora Aviation Museum‘s Spitfire Mk VIII flew over a memorial service held in the Geelong Grammar School chapel in Geelong, Victoria yesterday, honoring the highly-decorated WWII fighter ace and later Gran Prix race car driver, […]

Airworthy de Havilland Mosquito Restoration Approaches Completion in Canada

August 16, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 19

In the comments section for our recent story on the first flight of the world’s only flying Mosquito, Warbirds News reader Paul Smith, tipped us off about another Mosquito that will soon be returning to […]

Vulcan XH588 Leads the Way in the Lifting of UK CAA Permit to Fly Flight Restrictions

August 15, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

Last week the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) announced that it would be easing restrictions on the operation of Vulcan to the Sky’s Avro Vulcan XH588, and henceforth the plane will be no longer be […]

Month: August 2013