During World War II, the Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina flying boat became famous for its long-endurance missions over the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean against enemy ships and submarines. Only very few aircraft ...
... for Phantoms, and as it could easily be reached from Tokyo and its international airports, it soon became a ‚Phantom Mecca’ for Phantom Phans from all over the world.
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... of the Second World War came to the beaches, which saw the embarkment of Allied forces into continental Europe 75 years ago. This event also aroused the interest of more than one million visitors, which ...
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Omaka - Home of the Aviation Heritage Center
Omaka airfield is also home to the “Aviation Heritage Center”. It houses the “Knights of the Sky” exhibition, which focuses on World War I and presents ...
... to its small fuselage it is very agile, and don’t forget it was the world’s first low-wing cantilever monoplane fighter with retractable landing gear. It was only the closed canopy that was missing to ...
... f frontline F-16I Sufa and F-15I Ra’am long range strike fighters. Hatzerim is located not far from the Gaza Strip, and the prime minister’s speech highlighted the IAF’s fundamental role in real-world operatio ...
... light performance. However, after the disassembly of the rotor blades the H145M is on the other hand still small enough to fit in the cargo bay of the Luftwaffe’s Airbus A400M, and therefore worldwide ...
... can become a realistic scenario in this part of the world and was certainly not chosen by chance as a theme for the high-value exercise "Blue Flag 2019" at Ovda Air Force Base in southern Israel.
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The Farnborough International Airshow rates amongst the world's biggest trade airshow. The 2018 edition was once again packed with massive airline orders and business behind the scenes. Exhibitors use ...
... e world’s smallest jet plane up to aerobatic demonstrations and military jets.
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This included flying displays of the Armee de l'Air Raf ...
... e landing beaches in Normandy. They were marked to commemorate the D-Day 75th anniversary, the landing of the Allies in Normandy and the beginning of the end of the World War II. They showed up first ...
... the programme was however a fiction end-of-Second-World-War battle between German and American pilots. There were also be paratroopers and ground troops, a German field camp and an American airport camp ...
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Battle of Britain - Blenheim, Spitfire and Hurricanes
For the “Battle of Britain” theme it was time for the world’s only flying ...
... of currently the world’s only airworthy twin-seater of a (re-build) Messerschmitt Me262 „Schwalbe“. And it was a real treat to see this plane flying in formation with other aircraft from the same era. ...
EAA Airventure at Oshkosh in 2017 saw a rare gathering of Bell Aircraft Cobras. Three P-63 Kingcobras and a P-39 Airacobra attended the ‘World’s greatest Aviation Celebration’, amongst them all Cobras ...
... for his impressive airplane collection, and which is one of the world’s largest private collections of historic military aircraft. And “Warbirds over the Beach” airshow is the main event each year to see ...
... it at that time the busiest airport in the world with approximately 123 aircraft movements per hour. For the pilots it was once again the great fly-in, and the highlight for the airshow this year were ...
... Transall the wing moved from Neubiberg to its current home Penzing in 1971. Since then these reliable aircraft saw action in many parts of the world, flying humanitarian missions to Ethiopia, or serving ...
... is transformed into “The world’s busiest control tower”, and the remaining numbers also speak for themselves: 2016 saw approximately 563,000 attendees, 2,855 showplanes, amongst them 1,124 homebuilt aircraft, ...
