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Showing posts with label Warbirds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Warbirds. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 04, 2014

Fantasy of Flight to Close as Public Attraction, Will Focus on Private Event Business: Attraction has world's largest private collection of vintage aircraft

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AUBURNDALE | Troubled by waning attendance and image problems, Fantasy of Flight, an aviation-themed attraction boasting the world’s largest...

Restored Ball Turret back on WWII-era Aircraft

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The National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force B-17 Restoration Team has installed a restored ball turret onto a World War II-era aircra...
Friday, February 28, 2014

“Miss Pauline”: Work progresses on museum's WW II aircraft

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Working on “Miss Pauline” is like working on a giant puzzle with thousands of pieces in two different locations. “Miss Pauline” is an AT-6 t...
Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Avenger torpedo bomber takes flight: After years of work, public can view restored World War II plane

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 When retired airline pilot Charlie Cartledge bought his World War II vintage TBF Avenger torpedo bomber in 1999, it was missing a few impor...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

'War Horse' ready for taxi

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The restored F-111 aircraft that was unveiled in June at the Bowling Green-Warren County Regional Airport will make its way Sunday to its pe...
Monday, September 16, 2013

Clear flying: Mineral Wells, Texas

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Mornings last week provided J. D. Dunson with “beautiful, thrilling” opportunities to exercise his vintage, piston-engine 1956 North America...
Monday, September 09, 2013

Help is in the air: Volunteers keep things flying at aircraft museums

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Dick Goldstine's father was a mechanic at the Millville airport and he grew up flying model airplanes there. Goldstine himself served in...
Tuesday, September 03, 2013

Crashed WWII Spitfire being dug up on Salisbury Plain

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The remains of a buried Spitfire aircraft shot down over Wiltshire during World War II are being dug up. In 1940, Pilot Officer Paul Baillon...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Teachers on Dive for Megalodon Teeth Also Find WWII Plane Wreck

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Couple searching for rare shark teeth also find downed World War II plane A North Texas couple hunting for rare shark teeth has made an extr...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Texas company reproduces legendary WWII fighter plane

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 Credit: Josh Stephen / WFAA  Authentic replicas of the legendary Spitfire British fighter plane are being manufactured in kit form at a...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Historic WWII aircraft restored at North Little Rock Airport

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  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) - A pair of pilots in North Little Rock are chasing their dream of restoring a historic DC-3 aircraft.  The ...
Monday, July 22, 2013

Sea Fury's stunning aerial display over Falmouth: VIDEO

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   Credit Martin Perrett. People in Falmouth were treated to a spectacular aerial display as a 'Spitfire' style plane took ...
Saturday, June 29, 2013

Plane was at Iwo Jima

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The OY-1/(L-5) Sentinel now at the Dakota Territory Air Museum in Minot was at the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. It is one of 11 ...

Warbirds will take to Daytona's skies for Coke Zero 400

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DAYTONA BEACH — Coke Zero 400 fans won't hear the roar of high-powered military jets over the Speedway at the end of the national anth...
Saturday, June 15, 2013

Vulcan still a thriller for pilot

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Saturday, June 15, 2013 Lincolnshire Echo A Lincolnshire man who was the youngest ever captain of a five-man Vulcan bomber crew at 23 will b...
Thursday, June 13, 2013

Spitfire tribute to Middleton wartime pilot: Sergeant Allan Leaver-Ridings was flying Spitfire W3644 when he was shot down and killed over Devon on June 23, 1942

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By Simon Thacker 13 Jun 2013 08:00 A spitfire pilot from Middleton, killed three weeks before his twenty-first birthday, is having a memor...
Monday, June 10, 2013

Last surviving German bomber lifted off bottom of the Channel

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The World War II Dornier is lifted from the English Channel this evening.  Photo: IAIN DUNCAN By Sam Marsden 9:20PM BST 10 Jun 2013 The...
Saturday, June 08, 2013

Cape May County Airport (KWWD), Wildwood, New Jersey: WWII bomber due to arrive on Sunday

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Posted: Saturday, June 8, 2013 12:01 am | Updated: 12:12 am, Sat Jun 8, 2013. By RICHARD DEGENER, Press of Atlantic City LOWER TOWNSHIP - Th...
Wednesday, June 05, 2013

Vintage war aircraft grounded due to insurance costs

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RENO, Nev. (KRNV & MyNews4.com) -- An operations official with the The Collings Foundation's Wings of Freedom Tour says the Reno ...
Monday, May 20, 2013

Future up in the air for old cargo plane: Owners hope to see C-47 fly again

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  Photo Credit: Benjamin Krain Pilots Harry Barrett (left) and Bob Partyka bought this WWII era C-47 aircraft in 2003 from a mechanic...