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Albatros Returns to Old Rhinebeck
A replica Albatros D.Va built in the 1970s has been restored and is back in the air. Students of the Saxe Middle School of New Canaan, Connecticut, raised funds for the restoration.
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Percival Mew Gull Debuts
Percival Mew Gulls dominated British air racing in the late 1930s.
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de Havilland Mosquito to Buzz Again
New Zealander Glyn Powell is building what will be the only airworthy de Havilland Mosquito.
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Breitling Jet Team Debuts in U.S.
Spectators at the Sun ’n Fun Fly-In & International Expo in Lakeland, Fla., got to see the first-ever public performance in America of the Breitling Jet Team on April 24 and 25. Flying L-39...
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The First Crusader
The First Crusader Few important aircraft prototypes make it to fully restored museum status. They often become test mules and are eventually junked, or they are fettled to become prototypes for...
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The Airmail Flies Again Ninety years ago, in May 1918, the U.S. Post Office Department inaugurated airmail service and began an adventure in American history much like the days of the Pony Express, a...
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Soccer War Corsair
Some of the most unusual Corsairs in the world are the two dozen that participated in the last-ever air war involving piston-engine fighters, during the July 1969 “Soccer War” between El Salvador and...
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Spirit of TWA Transcontinental
The oldest surviving ex-TWA aircraft, a Lockheed 12A Electra Junior, made a coast-to-coast round trip in September to celebrate the opening of the new JFK Terminal 5. The structure is attached to the...
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Homebuilt Macchi M.5 Replica
When I first read that a Holland, Mich., aviation enthusiast and former pilot had built a Macchi M.5 “fighter plane,” I put that description down to a newspaper columnist’s overheated and underinformed...
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Barn Cub Found Every collector’s dream is to come across a “barn find,” though often the discovery doesn’t involve a barn. It can be a Merlin engine spotted in a junkyard, a decrepit Stearman parked in...
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Scrapyard Spitfire There are more Spitfires flying today than have been airworthy since the early 1950s: at least 50, some sources say, with as many as 150 more in various stages of rebuilding and...
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Two Harpoon Twins The PV-2 Harpoon was the last in a long line of Lockheed double-fin twins that started in 1934 with the Model 10 Electra (Amelia Earhart’s mythic airplane) and included the RAF’s...
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F2G Racer Returns
Once in a junkyard, a Navy Corsair is now restored and ready to race.
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Bata Lockheed Electra
Many of us assume that corporate flying was developed by Texas oil barons and Midwestern entrepreneurs during the 1930s, but it was a Czech shoe company, Bata, that pioneered a particularly productive...
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Storied C-130E Goes to USAF Museum
The Hercules suffered a close call during the Siege of An Loc in 1972.
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Living in the Age of Airplanes
Producer/director Brian Terwilliger’s love letter to aviation, Living in the Age of Airplanes reminds us of the myriad ways in which flying has transformed our lives and our world. At the film’s April...
View ArticleWaiting for the Candy Bomber
Spirit of Freedom is one of hundreds of aircraft that delivered more than 200,000 tons of food and fuel during the airlift.
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The Stratolaunch Systems production facility broke ground at Mojave Air and Space Port in January 2012.
View ArticleDoolittle Raiders Drink a Final Toast
Edward Saylor, Dick Cole (Jimmy Doolittle's copilot) and David Thatcher drink to their comrades. Photo courtesy U.S. Air Force A milestone historical event took place on November 9, 2013, at the...
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‘Flying Pencil’ Recovery
On August 26, 1940, German Dornier Do-17Zs of Kampfgeschwader 3 on a mission to bomb British airfields at Hornchurch and Debden were attacked by Boulton-Paul Defiants of No. 264 Squadron, Royal Air...
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