Aviation History
Stephan Wilkinson |
Published: July 11, 2011 at 1:30 pm
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.
Stephan Wilkinson |
Published: July 11, 2011 at 1:30 pm
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.
Stephen Mauro |
Published: July 11, 2011 at 1:29 pm
Vulcan to the Sky Trust returned the only remaining airworthy Avro Vulcan to its former base RAF Finningley in March.
Nan Siegel |
Published: July 11, 2011 at 1:27 pm
Sikorsky earned the Robert J. Collier Trophy for developing a coaxial, auxiliary propulsion helicopter, the X2.
Alan Cockrell |
Published: July 11, 2011 at 11:05 am
How film footage of a spectacular crash saved lives and spawned a legend.
John Miller |
Published: May 18, 2011 at 11:14 am
Ex–Canadian Pacific Airlines Douglas DC-6B Empress of Suva completed its last flight on December 4, 2010, in Pretoria, South Africa.
Stephan Wilkinson |
Published: May 12, 2011 at 11:15 am
In Britain, volunteers have spent 13 years renovating a 1954 Avro Shackleton bomber that served a remarkable 37 years with the RAF.
Rolf Stibbe |
Published: May 12, 2011 at 11:15 am
Under the leadership of owner Achim Engels, Engels Aeroplanbau in Württemberg is producing full-scale airworthy replicas of German World War I aircraft.
Stephen Mauro |
Published: May 12, 2011 at 11:14 am
On March 5, 2011, cluster balloonist Jonathan Trappe re-created the flying house from the Disney/Pixar film Up.
Richard P. Hallion |
Published: May 11, 2011 at 4:39 pm
American engineers had to solve a number of design problems before the U.S. could exploit supersonic flight.
Stephan Wilkinson |
Published: March 16, 2011 at 3:32 pm
Two Fairey Gannets are being restored to flying status, and, when complete, will be the only ones aloft.
Stephen Mauro |
Published: March 16, 2011 at 3:31 pm
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 the U.S. for burial.
Stephan Wilkinson |
Published: March 16, 2011 at 3:30 pm
Two Russian MiG-29s have recently flown in private hands in the U.S.
Stephan Wilkinson |
Published: March 16, 2011 at 3:29 pm
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 1944.
Stephan Wilkinson |
Published: March 09, 2011 at 12:20 pm
The May 2011 Aviation History nominates the 13 ugliest airplanes ever to fly.
Stephan Wilkinson |
Published: January 24, 2011 at 12:24 pm
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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