Early Sunday morning we headed for Nob Nob to visit the site of a downed P-28 Lightning aircraft. It’s now Monday afternoon and I’m just getting started writing Saturday’s post. I will catch up. I must catch up. It’s becoming compulsive, but in a good way. Anyway, here is Monty Armstrong leading part of the pack of rag-tag hikers up [...]
Douglas B-26B Invader N99420 s/n 44-34104 $195,000 Airframe: 2393 Hrs TTSNEW Engines: Pratt & Whitney R-2800-79 Engines: 2000 H.P. Each LH: 5.3 Hrs SMOH RH: 27.3 Hrs SMOH Propellers: Three Blade Hamilton Standard Hydromatic 33D50 LH: 5.3 Hrs SPOH RH: 5.3 Hrs SPOH Prop AD C/W 4/2009 next due 4/2014 Exterior: Bare Metal Interior: Stock Military AVIONICS: King [...]
A 30-year old Michigan man is organizing an effort to rescue a crashed B-25 from Alaska. He plans to restore and fly it again. The Project A 30-year old Michigan man is organizing a small team of volunteers to rescue a crashed B-25 from Alaska. This June, Patrick Mihalek and his friend Todd Trainor, both from Brighton, are planning to [...]
The WWII B-25 bomber Panchito received potentially thousands of dollars of damage at this year’s Sun ‘n Fun, according to Lakeland police, who are currently seeking information about the incident. The damage to the warbird included a deep scratch about 18 inches long, located on the left-side exterior near the fuselage. Police believe it occurred between 6 p.m. Saturday, April [...]
Six members of Keighley British Sub Aqua Club, in West Yorkshire, spent the weekend diving in Wastwater, in the Lake District. The group were hunting for the tail section of the Royal Navy Grumman Avenger, which crashed into Great Gable, above Wastwater, during a night-time exercise in January 1945. Graham Clay, the club’s treasurer and one of the divers, explained: [...]
Sunken into the sand, covered in trees, the B-25 Mitchell bomber hasn’t moved since June 1969. A pilot flying the World War II-era plane to fight a forest fire landed it on a sandbar along a remote stretch of river in Alaska after both engines failed. Its propellers and engines were removed, and the plane, nicknamed Sandbar Mitchell, was abandoned. [...]
Researchers recently uncovered the remains of a Bristol Beaufighter Mk X in northern Italy, drawing renewed attention to a World War II British airplane that was first discovered — and nearly forgotten — years ago. According to a report by Discovery News, parts of the fuselage and the propeller were found by a group of amateur researchers in the small [...]
Tim Gillies was 16 years old when he outgrew model airplanes. Gillies, 49, recalled the day an older co-worker at his dad’s fire equipment shop told him the Mosquito bomber used in the Second World War was made out of wood. “And because it was made out of wood I got to thinking, ‘You know what? We could make that,’” [...]
It’s a well worn axiom that any guide book is pretty much out of date as soon as it’s printed and I’m already thinking you can guess I am going to be harsh before we get out of the first paragraph. I am. At first glance this book looks like a supersized museum guide, like the type we used to [...]
For the first time in a decade, the B-17 Flying Fortress will cast its fearsome shadow over Brownsville. “Texas Raiders,” a 67-year-old, four-engine heavy bomber flown and maintained by the Commemorative Air Force’s Gulf Coast Wing in Houston, will be the biggest star at this weekend’s Air Fiesta 2013, which celebrates 50 years of CAF air shows in the Rio [...]
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Rhidian Brook: my grandfather inspired my bestselling novelMay 21, 2013
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A wonderful tribute to veterans at the PixMay 21, 2013
Monument to the 1,200 Guardsmen, Kaliningrad, RussiaMay 20, 2013
Russia and Japan seek agreement to end WWIIMay 20, 2013
Top Ten United States Fighter Pilot Aces from WWIIMay 20, 2013
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