Vintage Aviation News

Museum of Flight to Open New Vietnam War Exhibit

April 27, 2018 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

SEATTLE, April 26, 2018: On May 26th, the Museum opens Vietnam Divided: War Above Southeast Asia, a permanent addition to the Museum’s glass-walled main gallery that focuses on the air war over Southeast Asia from […]

Masessa’s Mohawk – An Airborne Vietnam War MIA Memorial

February 19, 2018 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

The Grumman OV-1 Mohawk is too brutish to ever be called beautiful, but it has enormous charisma, and as such, it is surprising that so few are active on the air show circuit. Despite its vital […]

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Warbirds Over Addison – Cavanaugh Flight Museum Air Show

February 14, 2018 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

The Cavanaugh Flight Museum will be holding their annual Warbirds Over Addison air show over the 19th and 20th of May. The flying museum plans something special this year featuring their historic, combat veteran Douglas […]

A VETERAN’S STORY: The Story of One Huey

January 28, 2018 Moreno Aguiari 0

By Pete Mecca In the year 1427, celebrated Vietnamese patriot Le Loi defeated the occupying Chinese soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. Considered God-like by the Vietnamese, Le Loi’s birthplace village of Lam Son is regarded […]

Flying Cobra gunships out of Chi Lang in the western part of the Mekong Delta 1972.

A VETERAN’S STORY: Avoiding Cobras and Flying Cobras

November 25, 2017 Moreno Aguiari 1

Carl “Skip” Bell was born at Emory Hospital on August 6, 1945, the same day the B-29 Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. He said of the coincidence, “How about that, two man-made […]

New CAF Living History Program Launches with “Helicopters and Vietnam”

March 13, 2016 Moreno Aguiari 3

PRESS RELEASE – The critical role of helicopters in the Vietnam War is the subject of the first in a series of Living History programs presented by the Commemorative Air Force Dixie Wing from 11 […]

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Small Town Tobacco Farmer Flies 29 Aircraft, Serves in Both WWII and Vietnam

December 5, 2015 Moreno Aguiari 0

From an original of Story by Tech. Sgt. Brandon Shapiro (DVIDS) – For the millions of people who marveled over the Mel Gibson movie “We Were Soldiers,” none can forget Basil Plumley … the highly decorated […]

Viet Nam War Exhibit at New England Air Museum This Summer

July 24, 2015 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 1

As part of the Vietnam 50th Commemoration in honor of US personnel who served America during the Viet Nam War, The New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Connecticut is playing their part in with a summer-long exhibit […]

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Keeping a Memory Alive: Family Honors Lost Loved One, 4th FW Hero.

November 26, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE – SEYMOUR JOHNSON AIR FORCE BASE, N.C. – Family and friends of Capt. William Jarman Jr., an F-4 Phantom pilot with the 335th Tactical Fighter Squadron during the 1960s, visited the base to […]

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Two former Vietnam War Fighter Pilots Together Again

May 31, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 2

PRESS RELEASE – Two former Vietnam War foes were re-united for the online show, “Old Guys and Their Airplanes.” Col. John Stiles (Ret) of the United States Air Force and Lt. Nguyen Hong My (Ret) […]

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