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‘That’s All, Brother’ Takes to the Skies!!!

January 31, 2018 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 2

That’s All, Brother Takes to the Skies!!! by Richard Mallory Allnutt So the day has arrived. It’s a frigid afternoon at Wittman Field in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, but the moment so many of us have been […]

Dunkirk Movie Bf-109 to Appear at Warbirds Over Wanaka

January 31, 2018 Moreno Aguiari 0

One of the aerial stars from last year’s Oscar-nominated, block-buster movie ‘Dunkirk’ will be performing at the world famous Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow in Wanaka, New Zealand between March 30th and April 1st this year. The […]

“That’s All, Brother” – First Flight Scheduled for Wednesday, January 31st

January 29, 2018 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

The Commemorative Air Force has just announced that their Douglas C-47 Dakota That’s All, Brother, the aircraft which led a formation of more than 800 C-47s to Normandy to drop paratroopers on D-Day, will take its first post-restoration […]

P-51D Mustang “Sierra Sue II” to Lead Super Bowl LII Flyover

January 29, 2018 Moreno Aguiari 8

The Wings of the North Air Museum’s P-51D Mustang Sierra Sue II will lead the U.S. Air Force Heritage Flight over U.S. Bank Stadium at Super Bowl LII on February 4th, 2018. Sierra Sue II will be first in a […]

A VETERAN’S STORY: The Story of One Huey

January 28, 2018 Moreno Aguiari 0

By Pete Mecca In the year 1427, celebrated Vietnamese patriot Le Loi defeated the occupying Chinese soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. Considered God-like by the Vietnamese, Le Loi’s birthplace village of Lam Son is regarded […]

RAF Museum Cosford: Open Cockpits Announced for Feb.9th, 2018

January 27, 2018 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

As we mentioned in a previous article, the Royal Air Force Museum will be holding a series of special Open Cockpit events during 2018 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the RAF. Eight events will […]

Texas Flying Legends Museum – P-47D Restoration Update – Nov/Dec 2017

January 25, 2018 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 2

WarbirdsNews has just received the latest report from Chuck Cravens on the restoration of Texas Flying Legends Museum’s P-47D Thunderbolt 42-27609 at AirCorps Aviation in Bemidji, Minnesota. We thought our readers would be very interested to see […]

High Performance L-39X Albatros Takes Flight

January 24, 2018 Moreno Aguiari 0

When the proliferation of vintage military jet trainers began to take hold on the civilian market twenty or so years ago, it was only natural that a number of boutique companies would emerge to cater […]

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A VETERAN’S STORY: “Hitting The Silk” Over Burma

January 24, 2018 Moreno Aguiari 1

By Pete Mecca From a special article in the New York Times on December 15, 1944: “Big strike on railroad marshaling yards in Rangoon by B-29 bombers cause devastating results. No B-29s were lost.” The […]

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Overhauling A Kittyhawk Downunder

January 22, 2018 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

With the recent feature article that WarbirdsNews published concerning Curtiss Kittyhawk Mk.1A ET574 that recently re-emerged in Egypt following a rather unfortunate makeover, we thought we might followup with a story from the other side of […]

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