The only known surviving example of the Dornier Do 17 is being salvaged by divers from the seabed of the English Channel just off the Kent coast.
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Category: Heritage
Museum of Aviation getting rid of 29 planes and three missiles
The Museum of Aviation, the second-largest aerospace museum of the U.S. Air Force, will have to remove 29 planes and three missiles.
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New miniseries on Flying Tigers
Playground Entertainment has announced plans for a ten-part miniseries on the Flying Tigers and plans to start filming towards the end of the year in both China and Louisiana.
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British team searching for buried Spitfires found water-filled crate
The team lead by David J. Cundall has found a wooden crate containing parts of a Spitfire in Myanmar, however the crate was filled with muddy water.
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U-2 flight manual declassified
The CIA has declassified the 1959 copy of the U-2 flight manual, Japlonik has kindly made available a copy on Scribd.
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