Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor)

About Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor)

Richard Mallory Allnutt's aviation passion ignited at the 1974 Farnborough Airshow. Raised in 1970s Britain, he was immersed in WWII aviation lore. Moving to Washington DC, he frequented the Smithsonian’s National Air & Space Museum, meeting aviation legends.

After grad school, Richard worked for Lockheed-Martin but stayed devoted to aviation, volunteering at museums and honing his photography skills. In 2013, he became the founding editor of Warbirds News, now Vintage Aviation News. With around 800 articles written, he focuses on supporting grassroots aviation groups.

Richard values the connections made in the aviation community and is proud to help grow Vintage Aviation News.

First Post-Restoration Flight for Ultra-Rare Airco DH.9 WWI Bomber

June 18, 2019 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

The Historic Aircraft Collection’s extraordinarily rare, WWI-era Airco DH.9 light bomber took to the skies over Duxford Aerodrome on May 13th, 2019 for its first post-restoration flight following fifteen years of dedicated conservation and restoration […]

Mid-Atlantic Air Museum WWII Weekend 2019 – Air Show Report

June 17, 2019 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

Mid-Atlantic Air Museum WWII Weekend 2019 – Air Show Report By A. Kevin Grantham The twenty-ninth annual WWII Weekend (WWIIW) took place at Spaatz Field (Reading Regional Airport) in Reading, Pennsylvania, over the weekend of […]

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Berlin Airlift – 70th Anniversary Celebrations

June 13, 2019 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

With the successful conclusion to the celebrations of D-Day + 75 in Normandy, France, some of the Douglas C-47s from the D-Day Squadron, along with others based in Europe, have continued onwards to Germany to help […]

D-Day Plus 75 – The June 5th Parachute Drop Over France

June 7, 2019 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

While we were able to present some fabulous photographs and video from the days leading up to the D-Day 75th Anniversary Celebrations yesterday, we have just received some marvelous images from the D-Day Squadron’s photographer, […]

D-Day Plus 75 Years

June 6, 2019 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 1

The 75th anniversary celebrations for Operation Overlord, better known now as D-Day, reached a crescendo today with the massed fly-over along the beachheads and landing zones of Normandy, France where the June 6th, 1944 invasion […]

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Shuttleworth Collection – Premier Display of 2019 – Air Show Report

June 5, 2019 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

Shuttleworth Collection – 2019 Season Premier Air Show by George Land Sunday, May 5th, 2019 saw the Shuttleworth Collection hold their first show of the 2019 season, at Old Warden Aerodrome, in Biggleswade, England. The […]

Super Legend Series: F-117A Nighthawk

May 30, 2019 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

Every once in a while an aviation book comes along with such spectacular photography in it about such a special aircraft that it’s hard to say no. We thought our readers might be interested in […]

Another ‘Thirteenth’ Corsair Added to Thunder Over Michigan Lineup!!!

May 30, 2019 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

We are back up to thirteen Corsairs which will now be attending the Yankee Air Museum’s Thunder Over Michigan Air Show over the weekend of August 3/4 following news from the air show coordinator, Mike Luther […]

Dakota Territory Air Museum’s P-47 Update – May, 2019

May 28, 2019 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

WarbirdsNews has just received the May, 2019 report from Chuck Cravens concerning the restoration of the Dakota Territory Air Museum’s P-47D Thunderbolt 42-27609 at AirCorps Aviation in Bemidji, Minnesota. We thought our readers would be very interested to see […]

Warbirds Over the Beach 2019 – Air Show Report

May 24, 2019 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

Warbirds Over the Beach 2019 – Air Show Report By A. Kevin Grantham The Military Aviation Museum (MAM) near Virginia Beach, Virginia, is home to one of the largest collections of airworthy warbirds in the world. […]