A rare DH9 has been painstakingly restored by the Historic Aircraft Collection and there are hopes to make it airworthy by end of this year.
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RB-47 co-pilot shot down and imprisoned by Soviets to be buried at Arlington
Fifty-seven years after he was shot down by the Soviet Union and later imprisoned for seven months, Bruce Olmstead will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery on Jul. 27. The former RB-47 co-pilot died last October.
By U.S. Air Force photo [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The birth of the Cobra
Air & Space Magazine spoke to former Bell engineer Mike Folse, the man who created the AH-1 attack helicopter. Link to the story is below.
Source: Redstone Arsenal archives
RCAF to forge flying wings using aluminum from wreckage of Halifax bomber
A Halifax bomber LW682 was shot down on May 13, 1944 in Belgium, the wreckage was recovered in 1997 and the Royal Canadian Air Force has decided to use eight ingots of aluminum that had been cast from the melted down aircraft for “full wing” flying badges.
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Photo: RCAF
“It’s my intent . . . to use some of this metal from the 426 Halifax and put it in the new wings we’re creating for the Royal Canadian Air Force,” commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Lieutenant-General Mike Hood said.
Russia’s Northern Fleet divers recover P-39
A Bell P-39 Airacobra that has been lying on the bottom of a lake on the Kola Peninsula for 72 years was recently raised to the surface on Jun. 29 by divers from the Russian Northern Fleet.
By Bergfalke2 (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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