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XP-82 Gains Her Outer Wings and Cranks Her Merlins!

October 21, 2016 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 15

Following the momentous news over last weekend concerning the XP-82 Twin Mustang’s first engine runs in Douglas, Georgia, we wanted to know a few more details. A lot of major developments have been occurring with this incredible project in recent weeks, what with the move […]

Aussie Fw 190 – Repair Update

September 22, 2016 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 8

Butcher Bird Repairs by Phil Buckley The owner of Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8 wk.nr. 173056, based in Albury, Australia, has given WarbirdsNews a recent progress update on the aircraft’s return to flight. As we learned earlier this year, the project […]

XP-82 Twin Mustang – August 2016 – Restoration Update

September 2, 2016 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 6

As Tom Reilly just said, “Another month flew by. That light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter each day!” WarbirdsNews has received the latest XP-82 Twin Mustang restoration update from Tom Reilly […]

F-100 Super Sabre – August, 2016 Restoration Report

August 18, 2016 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 3

F-100D Restoration Update by Richard Mallory Allnutt Over the past year, we have been following the restoration of a combat veteran F-100D Super Sabre at the Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins, Georgia. The restoration team […]

XP-82 Twin Mustang – July 2016 – Restoration Update

August 4, 2016 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 1

The staff at WarbirdsNews has just returned from an adventurous week at Oshkosh, and hope you understand the quiet of the last few days as we recover from what was a spectacular, if exhausting event. While […]

Downunder PBY – Restoration Report from Rathmines, Australia

July 27, 2016 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 2

A couple of years ago, our intrepid Antipodean reporter, Phil Buckley, wrote a story for us about a dedicated team restoring a tired and weatherbeaten PBY Catalina in Rathmines, Australia. Rathmines Park, nestled beside Lake Macquarie in […]

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Doc’s First Flight Air-to-Air Video

July 24, 2016 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

With the amazing news last week from Wichita, Kansas which saw the first post-restoration flight for the B-29 Super Fortress known as Doc, we can now share the air-to-air video taken by Scott Slocum provided to […]

Doc Flies!!!

July 17, 2016 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 23

by Richard Mallory Allnutt Today we are pleased to report that the B-29 Super Fortress known as ‘Doc’ made her first post-restoration flight in Wichita, Kansas this morning. Following more than two decades of adventure and hard […]

Jack Kosko’s UC-78 Bobcat Restoration – July, 2016 Status Update

July 15, 2016 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

Jack Kosko’s UC-78 Bobcat Restoration – July, 2016 Status Update by David Cohen When Jack Kosko purchased his Bobcat project in November 2004, he always intended that he and his intrepid crew of volunteers would restore the […]

A Look Inside the Museum of Flight’s New Aviation Pavilion

July 14, 2016 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 2

Museum of Flight Opens New Aviation Pavilion photos and words by Joe Kunzler On Thursday, June 23rd, the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington invited members of the media to tour the new Aviation Pavilion, take photographs […]

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