Vintage Aviation News

Latest Warbird News

[ December 26, 2024 ] MiG-23 Update at Newark Air Museum Warbirds News
[ December 25, 2024 ] Today In Aviation History: First Flight of the Sukhoi Su-11 Articles
[ December 25, 2024 ] ‘The Shepherd’ Disney’s Christmas Mystery Film Warbirds News
[ December 24, 2024 ] Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Handley Page Victor Articles
[ December 24, 2024 ] Randy’s Warbird Profiles: Caproni Ca.20 Warbirds News

RAAF Wagga Wagga Gate Guardians and Heritage Center

June 18, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

Article and pictures by Phil Buckley. Stationed near the front gate at RAAF Wagga Wagga, the Royal Australian Air Force’s base at Forest Hill in New South Wales are five retired Australian military aircraft. They […]

Buckhead Bomber Girls Calendar

June 17, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 1

By Jay Bess. Photo credit: www.JKingimages.com Harriet Adams has come up with a marvelous and unique idea for a calendar paying tribute to aircrew from the Greatest Generation. The Atlanta, Georgia resident is pairing the daughters and […]

Blaine Pardoe’s “The Fires of October”

June 14, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 1

Fires of October is a critical and detailed analysis of the military aspects of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. It describes how close we came to a nuclear conflict by outlining the strength of Soviet […]

Spanish Air Force Polikarpov I-16 Rata: Air-to-Air & History

June 12, 2014 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 4

Based upon an article by Luigino Caliaro: The Foundacion Infante de Orleans or FIO, is the Spanish historic aviation flying museum, a group of aviation enthusiasts and pilots formed the non-profit organization in Cuatro Vientos […]

Hundreds of Paratroops Re-Create 1944 D-DAY Airborne Assault

June 8, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

World leaders, including have flocked to France to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in WWII.More than 600 American and allied paratroops jumped onto a field outside this tiny farming town in rural […]

Memorial Day

May 26, 2014 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

Today is a national holiday here in the United States, Memorial Day in fact. Today is the day we celebrate the lives lost in our name on the battlefield, and the countless casualties which followed […]

AEROHUNTER – Warbird Adventures Downunder

May 23, 2014 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

Story and photos by Phil Buckley: Soaring above Cessnock and the surrounding Hunter Valley, doing loops, wing overs, barrel rolls and pulling Gs, is all in a days work for the pilots at Aerohunter, […]

Warbird Pinup Girls – The Interview

May 13, 2014 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 2

As most of you will recall, 1940s America is famous for its flamboyant and often risqué portraits of glamorous women in magazines and on billboards. During WWII, these images, whether photographs or illustrations, frequently found themselves pinned […]

1913383 10153930422045424 1172176009 o 2

Tom Reilly on Flying the B-25

May 12, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 11

By Amy Lauria, Wing Leader of the CAF Minnesota Wing. Tom Reilly has been in the warbird restoration business for over 40 years after a chance flight in a P-51 Mustang in Kissimmee in 1971. […]

Doug Keeney’s ‘Lost In The Pacific’ – A Conversation With the Author.

April 24, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 1

L. Douglas Keeney is the well-known author of over a dozen books on US history, and has just completed a book on WWII air-sea rescue missions. However, it isn’t the book he originally intended to […]

Articles