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Aviation Photography Workshop, A Talk With Pro Photographers

September 6, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 2

It all started off with a good idea. We were set for an early morning arrival at the Commemorative Air Force hangar with a photographer to capture some sunrise shots of the aircraft. He was […]

The Swedish Air Force Historic Flight From Within the Cockpit

September 1, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 4

As we reported yesterday, the Swedish Air Force Historic Flight (SwAFHF), a unique public/private organization that boasts an impressive fleet of airworthy warbirds, and the world’s largest collection of airworthy historic Saab fighter jets, has […]

MiG Fury Fighters’ North American FJ-4B Fury: The Last of its Kind

August 23, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 12

Jake Peterson Reports: Every year a gathering of people and aircraft come together in one big celebration of freedom, technology, and patriotism. That event is EAA Airventure in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. For one week people of […]

Necessity Is The Mother of Invention: Paper Drop Tanks of WWII

August 18, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 6

Faced with wartime metal shortages, and a need to extend the range of fighter craft heading to Europe, the British came up with an ingenious design for auxiliary drop tanks, making them out of resorcinol […]

Spitfire Fly-Over Honors Tony Gaze, Australian WWII Ace

August 16, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

Temora Aviation Museum‘s Spitfire Mk VIII flew over a memorial service held in the Geelong Grammar School chapel in Geelong, Victoria yesterday, honoring the highly-decorated WWII fighter ace and later Gran Prix race car driver, […]

F-104 Starfighter Veterans on the Ongena Touch-Roll-Touch Maneuver

August 14, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 19

You’ve probably seen this video before, Legendary Belgian Air Force Silvers Aerobatic Team member, William “Bill” Ongena performing a touch-roll-touch in a Lockheed F-104G Starfighter, a plane that was infamously difficult to control at lower […]

Presidential Lockheed Constellation “Columbine II” Seeks New Owner

August 9, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 17

The internet has lit up over the past couple of weeks, abuzz over the “discovery” of one of President Eisenhower’s Lockheed Constellations, reputed to have dodged the scrapper and presently languishing at the Marana Airport […]

Long Island, New York’s Cradle of Aviation Museum Celebrates the Rich Heritage of the Region

August 3, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 0

When one mentions Long Island, New York (or Lawnguylind, NooYawk in the local dialect), guaranteed the first thing that springs to mind will not be aviation, but the reality is that the island is steeped […]

Grassroots Bomber Command Museum of Canada Continues to Grow

August 2, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 10

The Bomber Command Museum of Canada, located about 60 miles south of Calgary in the tiny town of Nanton, Alberta (population approximately 2,000) began almost accidentally, though over the years it has grown again and […]

A Downed Allied Pilot, the French Resistance and the Exhumation of his P-38 After Seven Decades

August 1, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 2

In the summer of 1944, the skies above the French region of Picardy were the site of some of the largest air battles yet in the Second World War. Second Lieutenant James Clayton Johnston of […]

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