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The I-400: Japan’s Submarine Aircraft Carriers

December 18, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

Sunday, December 7th, 2014 marked the 73rd anniversary of Japan’s devastating attack on Pearl Harbor – “A date that will live in infamy” – as U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt declared gravely at the time. Most people don’t realize […]

Aviation Autographs Launches New Website For Rare, Highly Collectible Aviation Legends’ Autographs

December 4, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE  – Aviation Autographs has just launched the new www.aviationautographs.com, an e-commerce website devoted to rare and limited edition books, prints and unique collections of items signed by Aviation Legends and Notables from World […]

Lee County Mosquito Control DC-3C-TP

November 30, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 1

As most WarbirdsNews readers are well aware, the Douglas DC-3, along with its more prolific military variants, is an extraordinarily capable aircraft. Adapted from the Douglas Sleeper Transport, or DST, Donald Douglas could never have imagined […]

AeroCinema: New and Untold Aviation Stories

November 24, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 1

If you are one of those vintage aviation fans who remembers with misty-eyed fondness the Discovery Channel of the 1980s/90s, and their famous television series Wings, then you are in for a treat! The company […]

Book Review: SHOT DOWN,The True Story The B-17 “Susan Ruth”

November 7, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 7

For the first time, the full and complete story of the B-17 Flying Fortress Susan Ruth is shared in unbelievable detail.Shot Down was created from the vast number of letters and journals of Howard Snyder; […]

Former US Navy Pilot Takes Longboards to a New Level

October 29, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

One doesn’t normally connect skateboarding with the life of a naval aviator, but then you don’t know former US Navy F-14 Tomcat pilot, and Top Gun graduate, Michael Maloney. Maloney was looking for a new […]

Cold War Naval Ops on Iceland

October 28, 2014 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 18

From time to time our readers send in interesting military photographs from their past, and we like to share them with the rest of you, along with some details about what was going on at the […]

Today in Aviation History -Macchi Castoldi M.C. 72, The World’s Fastest Piston-Powered Seaplane

October 23, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 8

By Luigino Caliaro. On October 23rd eighty years ago, Francesco Agello and the Macchi Castoldi M.C. 72 achieved the absolute world speed record for a piston-powered seaplane; a record which still stands to this day. “To […]

Bob Jens deHavilland Mosquito B.35 VR796

de Havilland Mosquito Restoration Documentary – Gaining Altitude film clip

September 24, 2014 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 1

A little over a week ago, WarbirdsNews brought you the news about a documentary film called Gaining Altitude: A Mosquito Reborn. The film will cover the magnificent restoration to airworthy condition of Bob Jens deHavilland Mosquito […]

Aviation Photography: Warbirds and the Men Who Flew Them

September 11, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

Moose Peterson is fast becoming one of the most well known aviation photographers working today. Coming from a highly successful background in wildlife photography, Moose turned his lens towards the world of warbirds a […]

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