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Stearmans commemorate pioneering floatplane flight

On the morning of Sunday, March 12 a special commemorative flight was due to be undertaken in New Zealand

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Martin-Baker Meteors – How first-generation jets test ejection seats for 5th-gen fighters

For almost 80 years Martin-Baker has operated Meteors as ejection seat test-beds. In the January 2017 issue of Flypast Darren Harbar discovered the twin jet still had much to offer

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Meteors vs Vampires: When British fighter jets clashed over Middle East

Shlomo Aloni describes the combat career of Israel’s first jet fighter

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Gloster's Meteor F.8 - the last of its kind?

Tom Spencer outlines the service of the final Meteor day fighter – the incredibly elegant F.8...

Flying Fortress makes road journey

The Experimental Aircraft Association’s Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress 44-85740 (N5017N) Aluminium Overcast has returned to its Wittman, Oshkosh home in Wisconsin by road

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208 Sqn Gloster Meteors – Photo-recce in the Middle East

Graham Pitchfork recounts the career of a Meteor pilot and the recce sorties he undertook in the Middle East

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WW2 Meteor pilot: leading the first Allied jet deployment to Europe

Graham Pitchfork profiles an RAF pilot at the forefront of Meteor operations

Yak-3UA for sale in France

Warbird broker Platinum Fighters has announced that a Yakovlev Yak-3UA is available to buy

Help to revive RAF West Raynham’s Station Headquarters

A project has big plans to breathe new life into the Station Headquarters building at the former RAF West Raynham

V-bomber cockpits taken on at Duxford

At the end of last year, the Essex-based Cockpit Collection donated a pair of V-bomber noses to IWM Duxford

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