All photos by Scott Jankowski – most from the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2018 event, with additional file photos – Ed. On September 18th 1938 the first of an eventual 15,495 North American Aviation Texans took to the sky. The Texan is known by many different names including the AT-6 by the United States Army […]
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OSH Warbirds in Review Part #1 80 Years Young – North American’s Texan
Posted by Scott Jankowski on September 19th, 2018
Posted in Anniversary Event, EAA Warbirds of America, Museums, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Marines, U.S. Navy, warbirds 
Tags: AT-6D, Harvard, North American T-6, Raytheon/Beechcraft T-6 Texan II, SNJ 
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Posted by Bill Sarama on June 7th, 2018
Jones Beach, on the Atlantic Ocean in Long Island near New York City, just had its big Memorial Day Weekend Air Show on Saturday and Sunday, May 26th and 27th, 2018. The Jones Beach air show was officially called the “15th Anniversary Bethpage Air Show” not only in honor of the duration of the […]
Posted in airshows, Anniversary Event, Museums, warbirds Tags: American Airpower Museum, Bethpage NY, Brumman Aircraft Company, Fairchild, Farmingdale NY Republic airport, Jones Beach Air Show, Seversky Comments Off on REPUBLIC AIRPORT – THE OTHER LONG ISLAND AIR SHOW!The Yarram Centenary of Flight
Posted by Dion Makowski on May 14th, 2018
The Yarram Centenary of Flight on 17.3.2018 celebrated 100 years of flight in Yarram, in particular the first war operation of military aircraft in Australia, in commemorating the search for the German commerce Raider SMS Wolf. A Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2b “Battleplane”, serial A778, presented to the Commonwealth by Mr A M Simpson, was sent […]
Posted in airshows, Anniversary Event, warbirds Tags: Australian Military Force's Central Flying School, Point Cook, Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2B, Yarram Centennary of Flight Comments Off on The Yarram Centenary of FlightThe Royal Air Force is 100 Years Old
Posted by Ken Kula on April 1st, 2018
The United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force (RAF) celebrates its’ one hundredth anniversary on April 1, 2018. Formed during the latter part of the First World War, it came into being through the merging of the (army’s) Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
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