Visitors to the Canada Aviation and Space Museum (CASM) now have the rare privilege of admiring a legendary Second World War aircraft – the last remaining of its kind – exactly 70 years after the D-Day beginning of the Normandy landings. The Royal Air Force Museum (RAFM) of London, U.K., has bestowed upon CASM the … Dowiedz się więcej
Nicholas Ashe from Strubby has raised £164.00 for the restoration of Avro Lancaster NX611 by sponsorship to learn the phonetic alphabet. Nicholas donated his sponsorship money on Saturday 3rd May and can be seen here handing it over to Andrew Panton in the cockpit of NX611 'Just Jane’. Photograph by Alan Markham. Well done Nicholas!! … Dowiedz się więcej
One of the most well known jet fighters and trainers in the history of the US Air Force, the T-33 and its variants enjoyed a long service history in the United States The Collings Foundation operates T-33A #51-6953 out of the Foundation’s Houston / Ellington Field base. Just recently, the T-33 was meticulously repainted to … Dowiedz się więcej
Mori Juzo was a torpedo bomber pilot of the Imperial Japanese Navy and one of the aviators who participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1973, Juzo wrote his autobiography, entitled Kiseki no Raigekitai (The Miraculous Torpedo Squadron). This book has, until now, never been translated into English. But one of Vintage Wings readers, … Dowiedz się więcej
The guys in Nanton, Alberta with Lancaster FM159 at the Bomber Command Museum of Canada have been kind enough to help us out with sourcing a new spinner to replace our number 2. The spinner we have been lucky enough to receive from them was one of the originals fitted to FM159 and still has … Dowiedz się więcej
The flight deck of an aircraft carrier is perhaps the most dangerous place on earth to work. The Navy ratings who work there risk death in any number of ways – propeller strikes, engine intake ingestion, ordnance explosion, fuel fire, arrestor cables removing limbs, aircraft losing control and on and on. Every few minutes a … Dowiedz się więcej