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    Fagen Fighters Zero

    Fagen Fighters Zero is finally home after a very heavy condition inspection. Can't wait to see it in the air more. Brandon
  2. Junkers JU-52 / Origin of the Quonset Hut

    From the Military Aviation Museum. Please check out our YouTube channel with related content.
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    B-17G "Piccadilly Lilly II" WalkthroughTour - Planes of Fame Air Museum

    Just finished putting this together! Enjoy
  4. American Air Museum in Britain - up-date.

    Just had an up-date from Duxford, informing that the American Museum, situated at the west end of the airfield, will re-open on 19th March. The Museum has been closed for the past year, whilst re-furbishment of the building was undertaken, and some exhibits re-painted and general maintenance...
  5. Planes of Fame, the Early Days

    Thought this might also be interesting. The early days of the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino (now).
  6. Pensacola Time Needed?

    Hey guys, I'm not sure if this is the right spot for this thread but here it goes anyway. I'm looking into going to Pensacola with my dad and brother this January, and I'm just wondering from anyone that's been there, how much time we'd need at the Naval Aviation Museum. Also, is there...
  7. National War in the Pacific and Nimitz Museum in Fredericksburg, Texas

    The National War in the Pacific and Nimitz Museum in Fredericksburg, Texas is a small but packed museum. there at 5 aircraft on display, (though the Zero is not available for view right now as it is in storage). There is a B-25 on a carrier deck diorama, and F4F in Guadalcanal diorama, a Rex...
  8. China Gives Solid Gold Medals to 5 Surviving Flying Tigers

    from China Gives Solid Gold Medals to 5 Surviving Flying Tigers | Military.com Associated Press | Sep 21, 2015 MONROE, La — China has given solid gold medals to five surviving members of the Flying Tigers, a volunteer fighter group formed in China before the United States entered World War...
  9. New military museum at Soesterberg airbase

    Lately the dutch MLM (airforce museum) and Army army museum were merged and got a brand new location at the former airbase Soesterberg. It's become a beautiful museum. Pictures below are by me, taken on May 4th:
  10. The Travels of Tel's Tin Tent.

    Part One. In this thread, I hope to share some of the sights and experiences of the tours in my recently acquired 'Tin Tent', or camper-van/motorhome, as I travel around the UK, and, hopefully, parts of Europe, at some stage in the future. Many of these 'excursions' will, of course, be to air...
  11. Yak 3

    Found this little gem at Cavanaugh Flight Museum with Dale yesterday.
  12. "Rosie the Riveter" dies

    https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/woman-famed-rosie-riveter-painting-dies-92-060311125.html (Reuters) - Mary Doyle Keefe, known for modeling as "Rosie the Riveter" in the famed Norman Rockwell painting that came to symbolize women factory workers during World War II, has died, according to an...
  13. A Gathering of Corsairs - Warbirds over Addison

    Damn, I will be out of the country so I sure hope some of you guys can go. They should have at least 5 Corsairs, the 4 on the poster plus Jim Cavanaugh's that he keeps out at the flight museum. Warbirds Over Addison 2015
  14. AVRO ARROW News

    I am on the road heading home after 3 months of being a "snow bird" in the sunny south, and received the following information from the museum I volunteer at. After rumors in 1959, that one of the arrows flew out of Toronto before the torches cut up all of the CF-105's, it seems to be true. The...
  15. A valuable Spitfire has been lost...

    RAF Museum handed over Spitfire in 'ill-conceived' deal for WWII aircraft it may never receive. Museum bosses admit they 'paid' a salvage team a Spitfire worth £200,000 to recover an aircraft found intact in the Sahara Desert 70 years after it crashed. A valuable Spitfire has been lost to the...
  16. Army museum Brussels

    I have been to Brussels with my oldest son. We had a very eventful trip, as the train collided with a car on the journey back, making a 1.5h trip into a 6.5h one. We arrived back home at 2.30 am, so I still feel a little tired. Anyway, the museum in Brussels has a nice, big hall containing...
  17. Brewster Aeronautical Corp display at local museum

    I snapped a few pictures of the Brewster aircraft display at the Cradle of Aviation Museum. I think you will find them as interesting as I did.
  18. Vought V-173 in Dallas for November

    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...
  19. 2014 Foto Fest MK. III

    We will start this thread off with what I am told was a static Battle of Britain movie participant. This airframe is currently in the annex building, which in typical Canadian fashion requires a separate admission fee from the Museum admission fee which is on top of paying to park. The museum...
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    Warbirds and Classic Aviation in Brazil

    The following link shows a full report and lots of pictures taken during a visit to the Museum of TAM, the largest aviation museum in the world maintained by an Airline: Aviação em Floripa: Museu da TAM - São Carlos/SP Hope you enjoy the photos and I count on your visit!