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Hi, I haven't been to the site in awhile so bear with me for asking these two questions. First, what did the duty uniforms of the AVG look like? Second, when the pilots manned their P-40s, did they wear the typical one piece flight suits with flight jackets exclusively or did they usually fly in...

has the bermuda triangle moved to asia?? i feel so badly for the friends and families.... Families, relatives tense after AirAsia plane carrying 162 disappears | Fox News A groom-to-be, his parents and three brothers are believed to be among those aboard an Air Asia jet carrying 162...

Can anyone point me to a good web page, or book detailing how the IJN differed from the USN in how they ran their flight decks? I'm looking for info on takeoff/landing intervals. Did the IJN use LSO's or did they have lighting arrays to guide pilots in? I know from Shattered Sword that the IJN...

It was 50 years ago today that Bob Gilliland took the very first SR-71 Blackbird on it's maiden flight from Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. The aircraft reportedly reached Mach 3.4 on it's maiden flight. I remember seeing them over the skies of Europe many times in the mid 1980s while...

I have decided to take the Revell 1/48 scale T-6/Harvard model and build it to represent a Swedish Harvard II. Quick question....The large numbers on the tail and cowling....are these the last two numbers of the aircraft serial number? I have found the list of ser #s for the Swedish Harvards...

It's not a photo, it's not a video, but I guess some might be interested anyway! Merry Christmas to all from a new member. I'm a professional photographer, specialised in interactive panoramas and virtual tours, and I have been lucky enough to be commissioned for work with a few warbirds...

The historic B-29 Superfortress known as “Doc,” will stay warm inside a Boeing Wichita hangar until next spring — when it is expected to make its first flight... Read more here: Historic B-29 ‘Doc’ expects to be back in the air by spring | The Wichita Eagle

For the month of November, the Cavanaugh Flight Museum and the Frontiers of Flight Museum, located at Love Field Airport in Dallas, TX, will be partnering on admission to both museums. If you buy an admission to one museum, you get a free admission to the other! Frontiers of Flight have many...

I have been watching this former "sim pilot only" take the giant leap of learning to fly and build his own homebuilt aircraft for the past three years. It finally dawned on me today that some of you "might" be interested in the thread. Building a Nieuport 11... @ the eaa forums Here are...

Hello all :) Here is my new video on the group french navy pilots View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygk5Su-Lb2U I wish you a good flight and a good weekend :)

Gidday everyone. Here are some photographs taken during a special Warbirds Open Day held at Ardmore Airfield in the New Zealand Warbirds hangar. The focus of the day was a series of guest speakers, but a number of warbirds were also present for closer inspection. One of the highlights of the...

During my last trip back to the states, my wife and I took some time for a few days on the beach in Galveston and since I hadn't been to the Lone Star flight museum in a number of years, I took advantage of our time there to drop by. They have done some very nice work since hurricane Ike...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=depF3lU-ADw

So i found this awhile ago As you can see this is data for flight speed of a FW 190 A9 with a late war BMW 801 TS making roughly 2250hp at 1.82 ATA. What i am wondering if anybody has any other data about this specific plane with this specific high power output engine setup, i am looking for...

17 years since first flight in '97, thinking to myself, what the f...!? :shock: