The Argentine Air Force retired all its remaining Mirage fighters at VI Air Brigade in Tandil on Nov. 29. Active and retired airmen gathered to bid the jets a final farewell.
Category: Heritage
DC-3 painted in IAF colors will soon head home to India
A DC-3 that was restored in the U.K. will soon depart for India where it will join the Indian Air Force vintage squadron. The service will now have to decide whether it will dismantle the aircraft and ferry it home or to make the long distance trip home.
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Figuring out the specs of Cold War Soviet airplanes
Bill Sweetman described how he would use graph paper and a Sinclair Cambridge calculator to try figure out the specifications of Soviet warplanes during the Cold War.
By Richard J. Terry [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
World’s only flying OV-1B donated to U.S. Military Air Power Museum
The World’s only flying OV-1B has been donated to the U.S. Military Air Power Museum in Jacksonville, Florida. The aircraft, #59-2631, was previously owned by the Georgia Army National Guard Aviation Museum.
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Photo: Mohawk Associaton