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Supersonic starlet uring the years following World War Two, the United States Air Force (USAF) realised that they had a large fleet of aircraft, many of which were redundant. The emergence of gas-turbine technology made the piston engine obsolete and the application of the jet...

After spending the past six decades in pieces, the National Air & Space Museum's unique Heinkel He 219 Uhu night fighter will soon be complete again, reports Richard MalloryAllnutt. Museum staff have now finished conservation work on the wings at the Paul E. Garber...

The 2014 show season has seen a new arrival in Italy in the shape of a former Croatian Air Force AVIA FL. 3, I-AGFT. The tiny, two-seat cabin monoplane is owned by Meridiana airline pilot, Captain Daniele Giorgetti, who acquired it in 2008 before...

The London Borough of Bromley has granted planning permission for a heritage centre in the RAF 'enclave' at Biggin Hill, the last remaining RAF owned land adjacent to Biggin Hill Airport. It currently houses a very successful Air Training Corps Squadron and St George's...

During the course of 1942 General Motors, in conjunction with several other companies, reorganised the production of some of its American factories to respond to the American war effort, in doing so creating the Eastern Aircraft Division. The company obtained contracts for the manufacture of...

The Short Empire flying-boat captain's role had a nautical and imperial flavour that has long gone. The captain of an Imperial Airways (and the sister operators of the type, Qantas and Tasman Empire Airways Ltd) flying-boat had a level of autonomy unknown today - more...

A story of survival Avro Lancaster X lthough more than 7,000 Avro Lancasters were built, just two remain airworthy today. European airshow audiences are very familiar with the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF)-operated Lancaster B.l PA474, but this summer, a once in a...

Carl Clemens Bucker flew with the air service of the Imperial German Navy in World War One but subsequently went to Sweden for ten years and became managing director of Svenska Aero AB before returning to Germany in 1932. He founded Bucker Flugzeugbau at...

After spending nine years displayed on a pole at the Armee de I'Air Base at Metz-Frescaty, in Lorraine, eastern France, North American F-100D Super Sabre 54-2131 was recently moved to the old French Air Force base at Toul-Rosieres, where it will be included in...

Having discarded the two-seat side-by-side crewforthree in-line, the cockpit area was made much slimmer.This meant the instrument panels for all three positions were revised and while the main instruments and dials were in a panel in front of the crewman, many of the other...