Here's a nice Christmas present for airplane geeks
Coming this Christmas from Disney+ and Executive Producer/Star/Certified Airplane Nut John Travolta.
Frederick Forsyth's "The Shepherd"
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Hawker Tempest II – first flight post restoration
This is the only flyable Hawker Tempest II in the world. The Tempest was the biggest, most powerful, fastest British fighter of World War II and the last World War II RAF fighter to see combat, flying in the Malayan Emergency 1948-51, when [...]
New to iModeler
Hi everyone, I just found this site a few days ago and joined. I did modeling as a kid stopped while in the service and got back into it about 10 or so years ago when the family got a little older and had I had more time.
I build mostly [...]
E/V Natuilus Dives on Wreck of USS Yorktown at Midway
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To follow up on Tom's @tcinla post about the dive on Akagi here the same team dive on CV-5 USS Yorktown
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I hate news like this, especially when it involves a friend
The remaining hours of the final Reno Air Races have been cancelled after a crash between 2 planes killed each of those planes' pilots Sunday afternoon.
Pilots Nick Macy and Chris Rushing died in what a statement from the Air Races is [...]
Searching for "Akagi" right now!
Robert Ballard's team is diving today in search of the Japanese carrier Akagi, which they think they have found at a depth of 17,500 feet.
Here's the livestream:
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Commemoration of 80 years of the B-17
Commemoration of 80 years of the B-17 emergency landing in Utzenstorf on August 17, 2023
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Just landed on my porch! Arma 1/48 Hurricane IIc
So, after a wandering trip from Poland through the US Postal System (thanks, Louis DeNoJoy) of 9 days once the package landed in Florida, my order for two of the new Arma 1/48 Hurricane IIc's landed on the front porch this morning.
Initial [...]
Korean War Group is coming to a close soon....
Hello again everyone. This is a friendly reminder that the Korean War group will be closing soon.
The last day to accept any new build journal entries will be on July 27th, 2023. So if you wanted to build something for the group, the [...]
This is cool news
Article from Warbird Information Exchange:
Bringing a Fokker D.XXI back to airworthiness has been the lifelong dream of Mr. Jack van Egmond sr. owner of Egmond Vintage Wings at Hoogeveen airport in the Netherlands. Reviving a piece of [...]
