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Super Sabre Magic, Dean Cutshall’s F-100 Returns

July 23, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 2

The first of the “Century Series” fighters, the career of the North American F-100 Super Sabre can be summarized by a series of superlatives: the fastest, the highest-flying, and longest endurance aircraft of its era. […]

American Airpower Museum C-47 D-Day Living History Flight Experience Returns

July 23, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

The American Airpower Museum (AAM) in Farmingdale, New York reintroduced their popular C-47 D-Day Living History Flight Experience on June 12th, 2021, completing four historic reenactment flights that day. Since then, demand for additional flights […]

Southampton City Council Backs Plans For Spitfire Monument

July 22, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

The Spitfire was designed by Reginald Mitchell at the Supermarine factory in Southampton in the mid-1930s. A prototype flew from Eastleigh Aerodrome, now Southampton Airport, in March 1936. Even before the end of the war, […]

Restoring a SAAB B 17 Dive Bomber

July 22, 2021 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

On July 2nd, 2021 the world’s only airworthy SAAB B 17 attended the Lae Flying Weekend, a fly-in event organized by the Norra Smålands Flygklubb, a flying club located right in the heart of Sweden. […]

Commemorative Air Force Rise Above Educational Exhibit at EAA AirVenture 2021

July 21, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE – The CAF RISE ABOVE Squadron is honored to have Tuskegee Airmen Brig. Gen. Charles McGee and Lt. Col. George Hardy joining the CAF RISE ABOVE traveling exhibit for EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, […]

D-Day Squadron Presents “Into Flight Once More” Documentary Film at EAA AirVenture

July 20, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE – Two years after returning 15 WWII-era DC-3s to Normandy for the 75th-anniversary commemorations of D-Day, and the 70th of the Berlin Airlift, “Into Flight Once More” makes it to the big screen […]

NASM Lecture: Top Gun Then and Now

July 20, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

Thirty-five years ago, the movie Top Gun brought the thrill and danger of naval jet aviation to the big screen, and its second installment, Top Gun: Maverick, will make its premiere later this year. To explore the impact of […]

Adoptions Help Keep The RAF Museum Flying

July 19, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

Within its first year, the Royal Air Force Museum’s Adopt an Artifact initiative has helped raise more than £65,000 to help keep the Museum flying, with over 200 adoptees supporting the Museum in one of […]

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Smithsonian To Receive Historic $200 Million Donation From Jeff Bezos

July 19, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

The Smithsonian will receive a $200 million donation from Jeff Bezos, founder and executive chair of Amazon, and founder of aerospace and space flight company Blue Origin. The donation is the largest gift to the […]

B-29 Doc History Restored Tour to Set to Land in Cleveland

July 18, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE – B-29 Doc, one of only two B-29 Superfortresses still airworthy and flying today, is scheduled to arrive at the main terminal building at Burke Lakefront Airport at approximately 2 p.m., Monday, July […]

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