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Australian Invader to be rebuilt at new home

Douglas B-26C Invader 44-35898 is being taken apart at Brisbane....

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Warning Star saved for display in California

The convoy prepares to depart Helena carrying the fuselage and...

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Dunkirk Hurricane Rebuilt and Back in the Air

Darren Harbar relates Hurricane P2902's extraordinary tale - and captures it in flight

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Harrier Genesis

Tony Buttler describes how a private-venture research airframe...

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FINALS: BRISTOL BLENHEIM

BRISTOL BLENHEIM John Romain flew Aircraft Restoration Company’s...

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YF-23 Black Widow II: Diamonds Aren't Forever

The story behind how Northrop's YF-23 Black Widow II lost a near-decade-long 'race' with the Lockheed's YF-22 to win the Advanced Tactical Fighter programme.

Saab unveils new decoy missile for Gripen E

Saab unveiled new electronic warfare (EW) capabilities for the Gripen E at the Kauhava Airshow in Finland on August 28, which it will offer in its Finnish Air Force HX Fighter programme bid.

First modernised Tu-95MSM Bear takes flight

Russia’s first deeply modernised Tupolev Tu-95MSM prototype flew for the first time from the Taganrog Aviation Scientific-Technical Complex (GM Beriev) in the country’s Rostov Oblast region on August 22.

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Qantas Announces Major Lounge Investment Programme

CIVIL NEWS Qantas will be extending its global lounge improvement...

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Poseidon Training Centre Opens

MILITARY NEWS A AUS$470m high-tech training centre for Australia’s...

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RAF Coltishall’s Heritage Remembered

PRESERVATION The RAF Coltishall Exhibition Rooms was officially...

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Restored Jupiter Makes First Flight

PRESERVATION Moynet M.360-6 Jupiter prototype, F-BLKY. Espace...

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SPANGDAHLEM’S HUNTER KILLERS

For a period in the late 1980s and early 1990s different generations...

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