Vintage Aviation News on MSN14d
AeroVintage's B-17 Restoration Updates From Madras
Scott Thompson of Aero Vintage Books provides the latest updates on three B-17s at the Erickson Aircraft Collection. While ...
Dark Skies on MSN22d
Bomber #666 – The B-17 Fortress with 16 .50-Cal Machine Guns!
A flying fortress unlike any other! Bomber #666 was a heavily modified B-17 built to take on enemy fighters with 16 .50 caliber machine guns. Was it the most extreme bomber of WWII, or just an ...
This Is Cathay Pacific's Oldest Aircraft Still Flying
Hong Kong's flag carrier Cathay Pacific operates around 180 aircraft. What is the oldest of its passenger aircraft that is ...
Stars and Stripes1d
At 102, American WWII veteran returns to the Polish forest where he was once a POW
Lester Schrenk, a former U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 gunner who was shot down over Denmark in February 1944, spent about half ...
AeroTime6d
JAL to order 17 additional Boeing 737-8 as part of fleet update
Japan Airlines has announced it plans to order additional 17 Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft as part of its fleet update ...
Montreal Gazette on MSN13dOpinion
Trent: Canada needs to outsmart the Americans at their own game
In January 1943, the U.S. joined the British bombing of Germany. One famous American heavy bomber was the B-17 Flying ...
Aviation Week Network11d
Lessor DAE Boosts Fleet With Nearly $1B Multiple Aircraft Acquisition
Lessor DAE Boosts Fleet With Nearly $1B Multiple Aircraft Acquisition is published in Aviation Daily, an Aviation Week ...
Navy Times on MSN7d
The P-51 Mustang and the man who won the World War II air war with it
It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...
Northrop Grumman: The Forgotten Winner Of Boeing's F-47
Boeing's win of the US Air Force NGAD contract is significant. Read why the NGAD deal positions Northrup Grumman for the next ...
Guest column: Canada needs to outsmart Americans at their own game
Canada has become economically, culturally and militarily dependent on the U.S. It’s time to let go. In January 1943 during ...
Few papers covered the Wright brothers' first flight. Here's what was reported
When the Wright brothers finally succeeded in getting their flyer airborne, many didn’t believe they had really done it.
Air Force Times on MSN19d
Air Force aircraft readiness plunges to new low, alarming chief
The Air Force provided statistics on how many of each kind of aircraft it had in 2024, as well as the percentage of time each ...