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Pharewell to the Phantom

December 22, 2016 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 26

The US Military bid a final farewell to the mighty McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II on December 21st, 2016, as the last active examples were paid off in a ceremony and brief flying display under heavily […]

A Family Tradition

December 20, 2016 Moreno Aguiari 0

It’s the summer of 1967. Lyndon B. Johnson is president, Rolling Stone published their first magazine and girls all over the world are going crazy over an English boy-band called The Beatles. Right now, none […]

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The Final Flight for the F-4 Phantom Set For Next Week

December 14, 2016 Moreno Aguiari 2

The final flight and retirement ceremony for the venerable F-4 Phantom will be December 21st at Holloman AFB, New Mexico. The Phantom is still in active service at Holloman with Detachment 1 of the 82nd […]

Retiring QF-4 stops in at Aviation Nation

November 18, 2016 Moreno Aguiari 3

After more than 60 years of service, the QF-4 Aerial Target, modified from the F-4 Phantom II, will officially retire from service. The aircraft was highlighted during Nellis Air Force Base’s Aviation Nation air show […]

Phantom Flies Final Unmanned Mission

August 19, 2016 Moreno Aguiari 0

The QF-4 Phantom flew its final unmanned mission in the skies above White Sands Missile Range on August 17. During the flight, the unmanned aircraft served its primary mission as an aerial target and was […]

Classic Fighters of America – Restoration Shop Update

July 20, 2016 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

Classic Fighters of America – Restoration Shop Update by Richard Mallory Allnutt (Editor) WarbirdsNews founding editor, Moreno Aguiari, made a flight down to Titusville, Florida a couple of weeks ago to check out what Classic […]

Flying the Little Italian Stallion – The SIAI-Marchetti S.211

May 4, 2016 Moreno Aguiari 1

by Luigino Caliaro Amongst those who witnessed the SIAI-Marchetti S.211 prototype jet trainer make its first flight on April 10th, 1981, only a few could have imagined that this jet trainer, the first design of its […]

Dramatic New Livery for Starfighter!

January 17, 2016 Moreno Aguiari 5

The F-104 Starfighter is one of those rare aircraft which looks menacing in almost any markings, but apply an all-over matte black paint scheme and it takes on an utterly lethal air, even when sitting on […]

The last North American Aviation F 100 Super Sabre copy

Back From the Boneyard

January 11, 2016 Moreno Aguiari 0

Story by Staff Sgt. Daniel Ter Haar Covered in dust, a North American Aviation F-100F Super Sabre sat in the desert at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. Bearing tail number 3880, the once proud […]

Declassified: How Pentagon Planned to Nuke Soviet Union, China During the Cold War

December 28, 2015 Moreno Aguiari 0

From an original article of By Thomas Gibbons-Neff – Stripes.com In the event of a nuclear war, the Pentagon in 1956 penned a report that listed 1,200 cities and 1,100 airfields spread across eastern Europe, […]

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