WWI Wings & Wheels
A World War I aviation theme pervaded the annual Wings & Wheels Extravaganza held July 9-10 at the Golden Age Air Museum in Bethel, Pa.
View ArticleLooks Can Be Deceiving
A team of English modelers have built a 1/6th-scale radio-controlled model of the B-26B Marauder Flak Bait.
View ArticleKiwi P-40C Takes Wing
Avspec's P-40C Warhawk is actually a restored Tomahawk, the export version of the plane. It was recovered as a wreck in northern Russia.
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Biggles’ Biplane
Made for the 1960s big-budget World War I film Biggles Sweeps the Skies, "Biggles' Biplane" is a re-creation of a de Havilland B.E.2c, constructed using de Havilland Moth components.
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Sikorsky X2 Wins Collier
Sikorsky earned the Robert J. Collier Trophy for developing a coaxial, auxiliary propulsion helicopter, the X2.
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Vulcan Returns Home
Vulcan to the Sky Trust returned the only remaining airworthy Avro Vulcan to its former base RAF Finningley in March.
View ArticleVideo: Last Flight of Empress of Suva
Ex–Canadian Pacific Airlines Douglas DC-6B Empress of Suva completed its last flight on December 4, 2010, in Pretoria, South Africa.
View ArticleFokker Revival
Under the leadership of owner Achim Engels, Engels Aeroplanbau in Württemberg is producing full-scale airworthy replicas of German World War I aircraft.
View ArticleThe Shack is Back
In Britain, volunteers have spent 13 years renovating a 1954 Avro Shackleton bomber that served a remarkable 37 years with the RAF.
View ArticleMach 2 Private Planes
Two Russian MiG-29s have recently flown in private hands in the U.S.
View ArticleMissing B-24 Crew Returns Home
The B-24 "Shack Rat" crashed into the mountains of Papua New Guinea in October 1943. The Army's Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command has identified the remains of three of the crewmen and returned them to...
View ArticleAustralian Spitfire Recovered
Royal Australian Air Force Flight Lieutenant Henry Lacy Smith's Spitfire MkIXb has been recovered from a tidal flat off the Orne River near Caen, having been shot down during a mission over Normandy in...
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P-47 Unearthed in France
Second Lieutenant Kenneth Hindersinn's P-57D Thunderbolt has been recovered by a farmer near St. Mère-Eglise in Normandy.
View ArticlePaul Allen’s Priceless BMW
Ex-Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen has restored a Focke-Wulf Fw-190A complete with an original, extremely rare BMW 801 radial engine.
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Lend-Lease P-39 Returns to Western N.Y.
A P-39 Lend-Lease fighter discovered in a Russian lake is being restored at its birthplace—the former Bell Aircraft plant, now part of Niagara Falls International Airport in New York.
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SOFIA Begins Science Flights
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), the world's largest airborne observatory, has begun operations, imaging the planet Jupiter and the M82 galaxy.
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Coast to Coast on Sun Power
Imagine flying 900 miles at about 40 mph in a cockpit that has half the interior space of a Mini Cooper, with wings the span of a commercial jet providing lift. Now remove the gas tank, add 12,000...
View ArticleNew Drone Designs Take Wing
Even as debate continues over the ethical use of drones in foreign and domestic airspace, two new drone designs are nearing full airworthiness.
View ArticleLAS Contract Dispute Continues
The A-29 Super Tucano by Embraer. (© Embraer) A contract for 20 light air support (LAS) airplanes destined for Afghanistan’s fledgling air force has stalled again, as Beechcraft Corporation filed...
View ArticleReturn of the Avenger
The two-story high Grumman Avenger torpedo bomber has become a favorite warbird survivor.
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