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Canadian Curtiss Flying Boat Moves On

October 5, 2023 James Kightly (Commissioning Editor) 0

By James Kightly, Commissioning Editor. The original 1920s Curtiss Seagull flying boat, which has been on display at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum (CASM) Rockliffe, Ontario (part of the Ingenium national museum group), will […]

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Hispano Buchon C4K.152 – First Post Restoration Flight!

July 2, 2019 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

Hispano HA-1112-M1L Buchon C.4K-152 made her first post-restoration flight yesterday afternoon, less than a year after her refurbishment began with Air Leasing at Sywell Aerodrome near Northampton, England. Air Leasing’s principal, Richard Grace, was at […]

Dunkirk – Filming the Aerial Scenes for the Epic Movie

August 15, 2016 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 58

Dunkirk – The Motion Picture Film by Richard Mallory Allnutt WarbirdsNews reader, Mark Rutley, recently sent us some fabulous images he took recently while observing flight operations for the upcoming epic film, Dunkirk, currently being […]

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Connie Edwards Buchons and the Battle of Britain Remake

December 4, 2015 Moreno Aguiari 5

Recently we had the opportunity to catch up with with Simon Brown of Platinum Fighters Sales. Part of what prompted the interview was the recent rumor about a Battle of Britain movie re-make spreading like wildfire on […]

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Messerschmitt in Pungo – Military Aviation Museum’s Bf-109 Arrives in USA

November 3, 2015 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 2

Jerry Yagen’ Military Aviation Museum in Pungo, Virginia received their ‘Messerschmitt Bf-109G-4’ today. Actually based upon the airframe of a Spanish-built Hispano Buchon C.4K-64 variant, the aircraft has been carefully modified to represent a Bf-109G-5 with the appropriate Daimler-Benz […]

Wilson ‘Connie’ Edwards and His Hangars Full of History

August 27, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 34

The marvelous Wilson “Connie” Edwards has been in the news a fair bit of late following the announcement of him placing his unique collection of a half dozen Hispano Buchon fighters on the market. With the […]

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Canadian Curtiss Flying Boat Moves On

Hispano Buchon C4K.152 – First Post Restoration Flight!

Dunkirk – Filming the Aerial Scenes for the Epic Movie

Connie Edwards Buchons and the Battle of Britain Remake

Messerschmitt in Pungo – Military Aviation Museum’s Bf-109 Arrives in USA

Wilson ‘Connie’ Edwards and His Hangars Full of History

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