Category: Heritage

The former site of a Imperial Japanese Army flight school in Tokyo that drafted thousands of teenagers to fight the war as fighter pilots has been converted into a exhibit hall.

By uncredited ([1]) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The crew of C-47 “Buzz Buggy” is busy swapping out the port side engine in Surabaya, Indonesia. They are expected to depart on Oct. 3 and instead of landing in Johor, Malaysia, they will be arriving at Seletar, Singapore. Arrival time is expected to be 1500-1700 hrs.

The combat debut of the AIM-9 Sidewinder dogfight missile took place 48 58 years ago and the location was over Wenzhou Bay, China. This article, in Mandarin, is the most detailed account on what actually took place on Sept. 24, 1958, including the time the first PLAAF MiG-17 was shot down by an air-to-air missile fired from a RoCAF F-86.

Photo: Library of Congress

Three PLAAF MiG-17s’ contrails can be seen in this gun camera footage and the Sidewinder had just left its launch rail.
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Palm Springs Air Museum intends to restore its F-14A, now being a gate-guard, next year and bring the aircraft inside the museum.

By Edward O’Connor from San Francisco, USA (F-14 TomcatUploaded by High Contrast) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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