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This installment of Randy's Warbird Profiles takes a look at the Erickson Aircraft Collection’s Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk N940AK. Curtiss P-40E-1-CU (Model 87A-4), Warhawk Mk.IA, AK940 (1058), constr.
The Tiger Moth is painted in the markings of the RAF’s top scoring fighter ace of WW2, Air Vice Marshall Johnnie Johnson, when he learned to fly at Cambridge in 1939. Bottisham Airfield Museum is open ...
Most were just 20 years old. Some were British, others came from across the Commonwealth and occupied Europe. Together, they took to the skies against overwhelming odds. Pauline Hanson's daughter ...
A Rolls-Royce Merlin engine from a World War Two RAF Mosquito is being restored for a new memorial - after being recovered from the hill where it crashed. Built of lightweight wood and powered by ...
One of these stations is the WW2 bomber station RAF Warboys just outside Huntington. Originally built in 1940 as a satellite station for RAF Wyton, it started life as a conventional bomber station.
While fighter planes, bombers, and their pilots were instrumental in WW2, there were hundreds of people in the RAF whose feet never left the ground. The roles these people played were no less ...
This isn’t the first time the Strike Eagles of the 48th Fighter Wing have returned to their home base at RAF Lekenheath with ... its various fighters of World War II without their colorful ...
But now her true fate may have been uncovered, after partially-burnt RAF maps were recovered from a crash site in rural Germany. Cologne-based researcher Manfred Weichert said he was '99.9 per ...
Two amateur historians have uncovered the story of an audacious spy, who infiltrated the RAF in the middle of World War II and escaped back to Germany ... on display among German aircraft. The ...
The UK’s first Boeing E-7 Wedgetail has received its service markings, ahead of the surveillance aircraft’s delivery to the Royal Air Force (RAF) next year. Painted at Southend airport in ...
D-DAY events organisers were dealt a major blow as the RAF grounded its WW2 planes indefinitely. Top brass yesterday banned the entire fleet over safety fears following a fatal Spitfire crash last ...