Oct 28 2013
Photo tataquax (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Eleven-time Reno Air Races winner P-51 “Strega” is for sale or available for corporate championship, according to this article by Warbirds News.
Strega was a strong contender for victory in the 2013 races in Reno but was ultimately disqualified after cutting the showline.
Read the full article here.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/2013/10/28/reno-racer-p-51-strega-for-sale/
Oct 24 2013
Photo Arturo Yee (CC BY 2.0)
The P-51D Mustang “Galveston Gal”, owned and operated for recreational flights by the Lone Star Flight Museum, crashed today in the Gulf of Mexico. The pilot and his passenger were killed in the accident. Fishermen alerted the US Coast Gaurd after witnessing the aircraft plunging in the water. Search and rescue team later found the aircraft and its occupants lying under a few feet of water.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/2013/10/24/two-killed-in-p-51-mustang-galveston-gal-crash/
Oct 14 2013
(Photo Credit: http://savevoodoo006.com)
Earlier this year the Jet Aircraft Museum in London Ontario was awarded the opportunity to save a CF-101 Voodoo jet that is currently located in Cornwallis Nova Scotia. The retired Canadian Air Force jet represents a important time in Canada’s jet heritage and the Save Voodoo 006 project has been raising funds to save this unique jet.
There is some great news coming from the Save Voodoo 006 fundraising campaign! Over the past three months they have raised $10,990 through online donations and just this past week saw them secure a loan from a museum member for a further $10,000 to bring them extremely close to their $25,000 goal. With only $5,000 to yet be raised the team is hoping and planing to save Voodoo #006 yet this month and begin the process of aircraft restoration, till #006 becomes the best example of a Voodoo in Canada! Continue reading
Permanent link to this article: https://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/2013/10/14/save-voodoo-006-campaign-update-almost-home-but-still-need-your-help/
Oct 08 2013
A preserved Hart of the Swedish Air Force, powered by a Bristol Pegasus radial engine, in Finnish Air Force markings in 1976.
Swedish vintage aircraft enthusiast Joakim Westh has announced his plan to put a Swedish-built Hawker Hart biplane bomber back into the air.
A full report can be read from Aeroplane Monthly.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/2013/10/08/mercury-powered-hawker-hart-to-fly-again-in-sweden/
Oct 03 2013
Last week, the French association Memorial Flight started the original 240hp Benz Bz.IV engine of its reproduction LVG C.VI for the first time.
Source: Memorial Flight
Permanent link to this article: https://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/2013/10/03/memorial-flight-lvg-cvi-first-engine-runs/
Oct 02 2013
Photo USAF
Read on Warbirds News:
The Public Relations office of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force has distributed press release announcing the immediate closing of the museums. “The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force is temporarily closed, effective Oct. 1, 2013, due to the federal government shutdown. All museum events and activities have been suspended until an appropriation bill or continuing resolution is enacted.If the museum reopens by Oct. 6, 2013, Fall Home School Day will continue as planned.Please watch the museum’s website, www.nationalmuseum.af.mil, and local media outlets for information about when the museum’s normal operations will resume.”
This is obviously due to the Senate has rejected the House’s latest short-term government funding deal, setting up a government shutdown at 04:00 GMT.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/2013/10/02/national-museum-of-the-us-air-force-temporarily-closed-due-to-government-shutdown/
Sep 29 2013
Air Commodore Gordon Henry Steege DSO, DFC (30 October 1917 – 1 September 2013) was a senior officer in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). He became a fighter ace in World War II, credited with eight aerial victories. Joining the RAAF in July 1937, Steege first saw action with No. 3 Squadron in the Middle East, where he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross after shooting down three German aircraft in a single sortie. He rose to command No. 450 Squadron in the Desert Air Force, before being posted to the South West Pacific, where he led Nos. 73 and 81 Wings. He earned the Distinguished Service Order for his “outstanding leadership”, and finished the war a temporary group captain.
Resigning his commission following the end of World War II, Steege rejoined the RAAF during the Korean War, and briefly took command of No. 77 Squadron late in 1951. Returning to Australia, he held senior administrative and training posts before taking charge of RAAF Base Canberra in 1957. In the 1960s he was appointed to various planning positions, followed by command of RAAF Base Amberley, Queensland, and later RAAF Base Butterworth, Malaysia. Having been raised to air commodore, his final appointment before retiring in 1972 was on the staff of Headquarters Operational Command (now Air Command) at RAAF Base Glenbrook, New South Wales. He subsequently became an aeronautical consultant, and died in Sydney in 2013, aged 95.
Read about Gordon Steege from Wikipedia or The Telegraph.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/2013/09/29/air-commodore-gordon-steege-%e2%80%a0/
Sep 22 2013
Baptiste Salis, a well-known French vintage aircraft and warbird pilot, left from Fréjus in southern France this morning at 8:21 AM and landed and Bizerta in Tunisia at 4:05PM, reenacting Rolland Garros’ first flight across the Mediteranean Sea a hundred years ago on 23 September 1913.
Salis flew a Morane-Saulnier Type G replica built for this purpose by Réplic’Air. Aside from a more modern and reliable engine, the aircraft is identical to the one used by Garros a century ago.
This report was aired on France T shortly before the flight:
Permanent link to this article: https://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/2013/09/22/baptiste-salis-reenacts-garros-first-flight-across-the-mediteranean-sea-in-morane-replica/
Sep 18 2013
Georges Marcelin, who served as a mechanic with the famous “Normandie-Niémen” Free French fighter group during World War Two, died yesterday at the age of 92.
In october 1943, the French mechanics of the group were replaced by Soviet mechanics and Georges Marcelin was assigned to the “Ardennes” fighter group, flying the P-40 Warhawk and later P-47 Thunderbolt.
After the war, he remained with the French air force until 1959 and worked as a physical therapist until his retirement in 1986.
Georges Marcelin was a member of the French Wing of the Commemorative Air Force and actively promoted the Normandie-Niémen’s history and heritage.
A short biography (in French) is available on the CAF French Wing’s website.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/2013/09/18/george-marcelin-%e2%80%a0/
Sep 13 2013
The Yak-3 F-AZZV. (Photo alkainel (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))
This afternoon, the Yakolev Yak-3 F-AZZV crashed in Dijon, France. The pilot and his passenger are reportedly unhurt. According to available information, the aircraft could not be stopped during its landing run. Available pictures show that the aircraft suffered extensive damage: the main landing gear and propeller were sheared from the aircraft, while the engine cowling and wings were damaged.
Pictures are available on the website Le Bien Public (in french)
Permanent link to this article: https://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/2013/09/13/yak-3-crashes-in-france-pilot-and-passenger-unhurt/
Sep 09 2013
An F-111 Aardvark. (Photo USAF)
A General Dynamics F-111C Aardvark, one of seven aircraft restored by the Royal Australian Air Force, recently arrived onboard a C-17 Globemaster in Hawaii. The aircraft was donated by the RAAF to the museum. Its wings and tail had already been delivered to the museum, which will now reassemble the aircraft and add it to its collections.
Source: Warbird News
Permanent link to this article: https://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/2013/09/09/raaf-f-111-aardvark-for-the-pacific-aviation-museum-in-hawaii/
Sep 06 2013
Coming soon: Squadrons! Vol.1, covering the rare Spitfire Mk VI variant.
As some of you might know, World Warbird News is a publication of Bravo Bravo Aviation, which sells aviation art prints but also creates low-cost websites for small companies, associations and artists.
Recently, aviation historian and author Phil Listemann in association with Bravo Bravo Aviation launched a new version of the RAF in Combat website, from which most publications are now available in electronic format (PDF, Kindle or Epub).
These ebooks can be purchased with PayPal and downloaded directly from the site. A new feature of the website is the addition of a monthly set of high-resolution photographs, which can also be purchased and downloaded. The first set includes 15 wartime photographs of the Spitfire Mk XII, some of which have rarely or never been published before.
Squadrons!, a new series of publications will soon be published on the website. Volume 1 will look into the rare Spitfire Mk VI variant.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/2013/09/06/raf-in-combat-publications-now-available-as-ebooks/
Sep 02 2013
Photo Alan Wilson (CC BY-SA 2.0)
One of the three remaining airworthy Vickers VC10 landed last week at the Newquay Cornwall Airport in Newquay, UK where it will be joining the collection of aircraft in the Classic Air Force Museum.
Read more about this on Warbird News.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/2013/09/02/vickers-vc10-for-the-classic-air-force-museum/
Aug 20 2013
Photo Neuwieser (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
The Bf 109G-4 “Red 7” restored and flown by EADS / Messerschmitt Foundation landed wheels-up in a field after suffering an engine failure during an airshow in Roskilde, Denmark, last Sunday.
The pilot is unhurt and the aircraft does not seem to have suffered heavy damage. The propeller is shattered and the engine will certainly have sufferered, but the pilot’s decision to land in an unharvested wheat field probably helped to limit the damage to the airframe.
This is the third time that this aircraft has been damaged. It crashed in 2005 and, after being rebuilt, it made a wheels-up landing in 2008. “Red 7” is a former Bùuchon, which was used in the shooting of the movie The Battle of Britain before being restored as a Bf 109G-4 with a DB-605 engine.
Photos are available from this forum (scroll down to the bottom of the page).
Permanent link to this article: https://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/2013/08/20/eadsmesserschmitt-bf-109-red-7-crash-lands-again-in-denmark/
Aug 13 2013
The Morane-Saulnier Type G replica built by the French association Replic’Air made its maiden flight in the early evening of Saturday August 10th at Auch-Gers airport. The pilot for the flight was Christophe Marchand, and everything was reported as working well.
A second flight was made with Nils Harald Hansen, and more test flights are to be made in preparation for the commemorative flight across the Mediterranean on September 22.
Photos and more details are available from Aerobuzz.fr.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/2013/08/13/first-flight-of-the-replicair-morane-saulnier-type-g-in-france/
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