Tag: Aviation History

Cypriot Company Zela Aviation Acquired Famous Abandoned Olympic Airliners

Two of the rusting, stripped-down passenger jets that once belonged to Olympic Airways (OA), which…

Sacred Heart University Is New Home to Igor Sikorsky Historical Archives

PRESS RELEASE Education, business, computer science, and engineering students walking through Sacred Heart Universityโ€™s West…

WACO 100th Anniversary Fly-In

by Nigel Hitchman On September 15-17, 2023, the WACO Historical Society held a fly-in at…

Captain Gussoโ€™s Piaggio P.149 Checks All the Boxes

After many years of military and civilian professional flying, Captain Giancarlo Gusso wanted to own…

Historic Feature: Col Borman’s Kingcobra

We present this feature article from the July 1998 archives of Warbirds Worldwide Journal No.45…

Combat Veteran F4U-5NL Corsair Changes Hands

by Nigelย  Hitchman On November 9, 2023, Georg Raab of Flying Legends GmbH purchased Chance…

Lightning XR724’s Hangar Opening

ย Byย  Chris Fear Over the weekend of October 21 and 22, a low-key two-day event…

Ace Baracchini’s Hanriot Project – Building a Dream

Ermete Grillo, originally from Rome but now resident in Pisa, Italy, is on a mission:…

“Awakening of the Myth” – Fiat AS.6 Engine of Macchi-Castoldi Fame Roars to Life!

2023 marked the centenary of the Aeronautica Militare Italiana (AMI), Italy's Air Force. However, despite…

2023 Beech Party: 50th Anniversary Edition

by Donivan Godsil 50 years ago, in the south-central part of Tennessee, there was a…