Month: June 2021
RAF Museum Conference: New Thinking in Air Power
Tickets are now available for Royal Air Force Museum’s ‘New Thinking in Air Power’ conference…
Fagen Fighters’ Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver – Restoration Update – June, 2021
It has been a couple of months since our last report on progress with the…
Randy’s Warbird Profiles: Republic P-47D-40-RA Thunderbolt
Since his childhood, Randy Malmstrom has had a passion for aviation history and historic military…
National Museum USAF to Open an Aircraft One Day Each Month
PRESS RELEASE -The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force will continue to provide the…
C-53 ‘Beach City Baby’ Receives Her Nose Art
As regular readers will know, we have been following the remarkable efforts of Jason Capra…
English Electric Canberra TT.18 WJ680 Flies
After a significant effort over a number of years, we are happy to report that…
Dakota Territory Air Museum’s P-47 Update – April/May, 2021
Warbird Digest has just received the April/May, 2021 report from Chuck Cravens concerning the restoration…
Then and Now: A Return to Bodney with 352nd FG Mustang ‘Miss Helen’
by Richard Paver If you’re unfamiliar with the term rephotography, it involves the process of…
June 27, 1923, The First Successful Aerial Refueling
In 1923, the U.S. Army undertook tests at Rockwell Field, San Diego, California, to test…
June 26, 1948 – The First Day of The Berlin Airlift
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided…
