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Two Gloster Meteors up for sale

Posted on August 23, 2015August 23, 2015 by alert5

Two Gloster Meteors are among five warbirds put up on sale by the Classic Air Force charity.

By Airwolfhound from Hertfordshire, UK (Gloster Meteor – RIAT 2013Uploaded by russavia) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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SEPECAT Jaguars hit the road

Posted on August 19, 2015August 19, 2015 by alert5

It was a busy day at RAF Cosford on Aug. 18 as five grey GR3 Jaguars were moved out of the Aerosystems Engineer and Management Training School to the airfield and five black GR1/T2 Jaguars went the opposite direction to the Aeronautical Systems Training Squadron.

Photos: Royal Air Force
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Japanese man’s 70 years quest to locate family members of B-29 crew

Posted on August 17, 2015August 16, 2015 by alert5

A B-29 bomber was shot down over Tokyo on Apr. 2, 1945. None of the eleven crew members on board survived, a Japanese farmer and his son gathered the remains of the crew and buried them in their own ancestral cemetery.

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