Category Archive: Miscellaneous

Jan 01 2013

Happy New Year !

I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year! May 2013 be a great year for you and for aviation! Thanks to all for following this blog, which is getting more and more popular. Best regards, – Bertrand Brown WWN Editor

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Nov 04 2012

Christmas gift idea #1: supersonic interceptor

The time has come to start looking for Christmas presents and World Warbird News has found a present you should get for yourself: a Panavia Tornado F.3. The aircraft is sold by Yorkshire-based Jet Art Aviation Ltd, which is known for having sold several other RAF surplus aircraft in the past. This Tornado has been …

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Aug 17 2012

200 Facebook fans? Thanks for the support!

200 likes

While updating the blog today, I realized that WWN now has 200 Facebook fans or likes. It’s always nice to see such support, as updating the blog on a regular basis is a time-consuming task, which I sometimes feel like giving up. Thanks to all for you support!

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Dec 29 2011

Skip Hit – Low level flying in West Germany

Skip Hit

Another interesting read from Vintage Wings of Canada: how a Canadian F-104 pilot in Europe found himself flying at 900 ft per seconds less than 100 ft above a German transport base. Read it on the VWC website.

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Nov 07 2011

Supermarine Swift for sale on eBay

A Supermarine Swift F. Mk 1 in 1953. (Photo RuthAS (CC BY-SA 3.0))

The world’s only known surviving Supermarine Swift has been put up for sale on eBay.co.uk, with a base price of £ 250,000. The aircraft hasn’t flown in 40 years and was displayed in front of a camping and clothing shop in Leominster, Herefordshire.

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Apr 23 2011

Coming soon: World Warbird News!

Welcome to the World Warbird News blog. The blog is currently under construction. Please come back in a few days, when we are set up and running.  

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