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EADS/Messerschmitt Bf 109 “Red 7″ crash lands again in Denmark 20 Aug 2013 | 12:40 pm
Photo Neuwieser (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) The Bf 109G-4 “Red 7″ restored and flown by EADS / Messerschmitt Foundation landed wheels-up in a field after suffering an engine failure during an airshow in Roskil...
First flight of the Replic’Air Morane-Saulnier Type G in France 13 Aug 2013 | 11:32 am
The Morane-Saulnier Type G replica built by the French association Replic’Air made its maiden flight in the early evening of Saturday August 10th at Auch-Gers airport. The pilot for the flight was Chr...
Friends of the SAAF Museum to restore a Blackburn Buccaneer 10 Aug 2013 | 02:30 am
The Friends of the SAAF Museum located at AFB Ysterplatt in Cape Town, South Africa are in the process of restoring a Blackburn Buccaneer. One of sixteen S.50 Buccaneer variants flown by the South Afr...
Five hundred Facebook fans for WWN ! 10 Aug 2013 | 02:26 am
World Warbird News now has 500 Facebook fans! Thanks to all for your continued support. Next step: 1000 fans!
Flight Lieutenant Tony Snell † 10 Aug 2013 | 02:21 am
Flight Lieutenant Tony Snell, who has died aged 91, was shot down in his Spitfire over Sicily and escaped from a German firing squad. Recaptured, he leapt from a train and finally escaped over the Alp...
Morane-Saulnier Type G replica to cross the Mediterranean 10 Aug 2013 | 02:16 am
Source: Replic’Air The French association Replic’Air recently finished the construction of a Morane-Saulnier Type G replica, which will be used to cross the Mediterranean sea on September 22, to comm...
Chipmunk WZ877 flies again in France 6 Aug 2013 | 11:38 am
The de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk WZ877 (F-AZLI) flew for the first time in La Rochelle, France, on June 23. The aircraft had been sold from RAF stock in 1996 but had never flown again. Bought i...
Squadron Leader Peter Tunstall † 6 Aug 2013 | 11:29 am
Squadron Leader Peter Tunstall, who has died aged 94, was an inveterate escaper who spent longer in solitary confinement than any other Allied PoW; he was court-martialled by the Germans on five occas...
Lt Gen Baron Michel “Mike” Donnet † 5 Aug 2013 | 11:25 am
Lt Gen Baron Mike Donnet, the distinguished airman who has died aged 96, made a dramatic escape from his native Belgium in 1941 then served in the RAF throughout the war as a fighter pilot. He later h...
P-47G SNAFU to arrive in the US 1 Aug 2013 | 12:39 pm
Photo Tony Hisgett (CC BY 2.0) The Fighter Collection’s Republic (license-built by Curtiss) P-47G Thunderbolt called “SNAFU” is currently being disassembled in Duxford to be crated and shipped to its...
