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Swinging round to the west to complete the 360 degree turn. Photo Peter Handley Vintage Wings of Canada

A sunset Mission to Honor the Canadians in The Battle of Britain

September 14, 2017 Moreno Aguiari 1

By Dave O’Malley On September 15, 1940, the future of Great Britain was unknown. The Luftwaffe’s Heinkel and Dornier bombers, accompanied by hordes of Messerschmitt fighters, had been hammering cities and airbases on an almost […]

Flying Heritage Red Letter Day – Mosquito Flies and Corsair Arrives!

June 26, 2017 Moreno Aguiari 1

Friday, June 23rd was a special day at the Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum in Everett, Washington. Not only did they fly their deHavilland Mosquito T Mk III for the first time over American soil, but it […]

Behind the Scenes with the Texas Flying Legends Museum

March 26, 2016 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 1

Behind the Scenes with the Texas Flying Legends Museum Text and Images by Jake and Moose Peterson An air show is a menagerie of a thousand different things happening all at once. However, looking at it […]

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Texas Flying Legends Museum Acquires a Spitfire

October 16, 2015 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 9

The Texas Flying Legends Museum has just acquired a Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX! Not only is it a fabulous airframe, but a combat veteran as well. The aircraft started life with the Royal Air Force as serial […]

Final National Tour for Vulcan XH558

October 9, 2015 Moreno Aguiari 0

The world’s last flying Avro Vulcan, one of the world’s most popular aircraft, will make its final tour of the UK this coming weekend. On October 10th she will travel north, heading towards Edinburgh then […]

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Let’s Help Mosquito KA114 come to Oshkosh!

June 25, 2015 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 1

Edited from an article by Mike Lambert “How do we get the Mosquito to Oshkosh?” This is a question that Jerry Yagen has heard frequently since his magnificent deHavilland Mosquito FB.26 KA114 first took to the […]

Let’s Support Planes Of Fame Air Museum

June 23, 2015 Moreno Aguiari 2

By Mike Lambert In October, 2014, Planes of Fame submitted the necessary paperwork to have their ride program, or “Living Heritage Flight Experience”, reinstated. After many years with an excellent safety record, the FAA stopped […]

Neglected B-25 to Resettle in Australia

June 5, 2015 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 13

For more than a decade, a forlorn B-25J Mitchell 44-31508 has sat more or less abandoned and exposed to nature at an airfield in Franklin, Virginia. Many have tried in vain to do something positive to […]

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Ray Fagen Memorial Air Show – June 20th, 2015

May 13, 2015 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 8

Fagen Fighters WWII Museum will be holding their air show on Saturday, June 20th, 2015 at their home field Lenzen-Roe Memorial Airport in Granite Falls, Minnesota. The event has a promising lineup of more than […]

B-17 ‘Texas Raiders’ Honors Veterans At Bluebonnet Airshow

April 3, 2015 Moreno Aguiari 2

PRESS RELEASE – SPRING, TEXAS – Celebrating 70 years of flying service in 2015, the vintage WWII B-17 Flying Fortress, Texas Raiders, and her crew will reunite one of the few remaining B-17 pilots from […]

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