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Chocks Away For The RAF Centenary

March 30, 2017 Moreno Aguiari 0

April 1 2017 marks 99 years since the Royal Air Force was founded. With the services 100th anniversary approaching next year, the RAF Museum is hard at work preparing for the historic occasion by delivering […]

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Oostwold Airshow: “TIME FLIES!”

March 28, 2017 Moreno Aguiari 0

The 9th annual Oostwold Airshow, held in the northern part of the Netherlands, draws over 20,000 visitors and is the largest warbird event of its type in Dutch civil aviation. Known as the “Dutch Duxford”, […]

German Fighters Highlight of Open Cockpits Evening

March 28, 2017 Moreno Aguiari 0

Two Second World War German front line fighter aircraft, the Messerschmitt BF109G-2/Trop and the Focke Wulf Fw190A-8/U-1 have been announced as highlights at the forthcoming ‘Open Cockpits Evening’ taking place at the Royal Air Force […]

Bomber Camp 2017 – Battle of the Bombers!

March 28, 2017 Moreno Aguiari 2

Stockton, CA – The Stockton Field Aviation Museum will once again host their Annual “Bomber Camp” this year, with support from the Collings Foundation. This year, there is an exciting new twist on the event, […]

Major Installation in New APOLLO Gallery

March 27, 2017 Moreno Aguiari 1

Last week the Museum of Flight received a special delivery– a full-scale F-1 rocket engine, received on loan from the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. The F-1 engine remains the most powerful single-nozzle, liquid-fueled rocket […]

Cascade Warbirds to Host B-17 “Aluminum Overcast”

March 27, 2017 Moreno Aguiari 1

Cascade Warbirds Squadron #2 of EAA Warbirds of America is proud to announce that they will host the EAA’s B-17 “Aluminum Overcast” in Olympia, Washington this year at the Olympia Flight Museum. The B-17 will […]

Arctic P-38 Lightning Mission Recovery Keeps Going

March 24, 2017 Moreno Aguiari 3

By Austin Hancock In 2014, we reported on Ken McBride’s mission to continue recovery of the “Lost Squadron” of P-38s, in Greenland. Today, we are just as excited as he is to bring you an […]

The World’s Oldest Flying PBY Catalina

March 23, 2017 Moreno Aguiari 0

By Gert Jan Mentink – Dutch Aviation Society / Scramble The PBY Catalina is one of the most recognizable warbirds in the world and although not exactly common, there are still a number of them […]

JAM to Honor Voodoo’s Last Flight Anniversary

March 22, 2017 Moreno Aguiari 0

By Austin Hancock London, Ontario – The Canada based Jet Aircraft Museum plans to “keep doing that Voodoo that they do, so well.” To be exact, the JAM will host an event to commemorate 30 […]

B-29 “Doc” Makes Oshkosh!

March 21, 2017 Moreno Aguiari 3

B-29 Doc will make four national tour stops through the first half of the 2017 summer tour season. Doc’s Friends, Inc., the group operating the fully restored B-29 Boeing Superfortress, announced the first half of […]

Month: March 2017