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Norwegian CF-104D Starfighter Almost ready To Take Off
Image courtesy of friends of the Norwegian Starfighter. A fascinating restoration project is coming together in Norway at the moment, which should see a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter take to the skies...
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F-4D Phantom II Arrives in Orlando to Serve as Vietnam Vet Tribute
A former USAF McDonnell Douglas F-4D Phantom II, 65-0747 as seen before departing its old home at Navarro College in Corsicana, Texas. (Image courtesy of Worldwide Aircraft Recovery) A historic F-4D...
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Fundraising Begins for Trophy Honoring Aviation Legend Bob Hoover
PRESS RELEASE-OSHKOSH, Wis. (July 30, 2014) — Fundraising began today for a trophy honoring the significant contributions of aviation legend and advocate Bob Hoover, known as “the greatest...
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WWII Portrait Journey
Friday Feature: We promise this story will bring a lump to your throat… so please read to the end… Chris Demarest is an author and illustrator of over one hundred titles. The New York Times chose his...
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Wilson ‘Connie’ Edwards and His Hangars Full of History
Some of the Hispano Buchons in Connie Edwards hangar, still resplendent in their Battle of Britain film livery. (photo by a friend of the Edwards family) The marvelous Wilson “Connie” Edwards has been...
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The Lost Sparrow Hawk
The diorama of the SM.79 Sparievo MM 23843 exhbited at the Volandia museum near Milan, Italy. ( image by Luciano Pontolillo of Luckyplane.it) By Luciano Pontolillo of LuckyPlane.it. We’ve probably all...
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Aviation Photography: Warbirds and the Men Who Flew Them
A pair of Mustangs head into the dying embers of the setting sun. (photo by Moose Peterson) Moose Peterson is fast becoming one of the most well known aviation photographers working today. Coming...
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Gaining Altitude: The Mosquito Reborn
Click on the image to visit the kickstarter campaign. WarbirdsNews likes to support worthy projects when we find them, and we’ve come across one such effort by a team of film makers who’ve spent the...
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Junkers Ju-87 Stuka Discovered Off Croatian Coast
The sunken Stuka in the Adriatic waters off Croatia. (screen capture from Hrvoslav Pavic video via Avialog.com) A fascinating video surfaced recently showing the remarkably intact frame of a Junkers...
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Former US Navy Pilot Takes Longboards to a New Level
One doesn’t normally connect skateboarding with the life of a naval aviator, but then you don’t know former US Navy F-14 Tomcat pilot, and Top Gun graduate, Michael Maloney. Maloney was looking for a...
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Norwegian CF-104D Starfighter Performs Afterburn Test Run
“Project 637″ came a step closer to completion on October 20th. The team restoring a former Norwegian Air Force CF-104D Starfighter to flying condition successfully ran the aircraft’s engine with the...
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Warbirds For Hire
The marketing team of the Commemorative Air Force Dixie Wing has come up with something special to advocate the unit’s activities. For the 2015 air show season they have produced an exciting...
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Messerschmitts Out of the Barn …
Some of the Hispano Buchons in Connie Edwards hangar, still resplendent in their Battle of Britain film livery. (photo by a friend of the Edwards family) While the sale of Connie Edwards’ remarkable...
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B-25 Sandbar Mitchell – November / December 2014 Update
80 days of work on a B-25 into four minutes! The Sandbar Mitchell online store is always adding new items to it’s inventory, so be sure to check it out HERE to see what’s available. WarbirdsNews will...
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German Stuka Getting Ready For 3D Scan at MSI
The Junkers Ju 87 on display in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.(Photo Credit – William brain – CC BY-SA 3.0) Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry landed its Junkers Ju-87R-2 Stuka on...
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P-51D Mustang Returns to the Skies after 12 Year Absence
This is the Palm Springs Air Museum’s P-51D Mustang “Bunny” shortly before she moved to Chino for her restoration. Check out the video link to see how gorgeous she is now! (photo via Palm Springs Air...
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Boeing B-29 Superfortress ‘Doc’ Welcomed Out in Wichita
Doc emerging from the hangar. (photo by Brett Schauf VLG LLC) As we promised this morning, WarbirdsNews has some rollout ceremony details and photographs to share of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress known...
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V-1 Pulse-Jet Engine Runs at the Military Aviation Museum
The Military Aviation Museum test running it’s V-1 Doodlebug pulse-jet engine. (image still from MAM video) WarbirdsNews just received a fascinating video that we thought we would share with you. The...
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Outstanding Omaka!
Report by Andreas Zeitler The bi-annual Classic Fighters air show in Omaka, New Zealand is one of the best warbird events in the Southern Hemisphere and ranks very highly against any of the more well...
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Tyndall QF-4 Phantom Final Mission
The 82nd Aerial Target Squadron’s last QF-4 Phantom takes off from the runway May 27 marking the end of almost 20 years of its use at Tyndall. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Alex...
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