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Frigid cold, searing heat: Extreme weather lab to push T-7’s limits
Defense News via Yahoo News· 6 months agoWASHINGTON — Within the McKinley Climatic Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, the Air...
U.S. Army Air Forces pilot killed on D-Day laid to rest in Normandy 78 years later
CBS News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA 23-year-old who was killed during the World War II invasion of Normandy has been laid to rest...
This tiny WWII prop plane used mounted bazookas against German tanks
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 7 months agoPiper L-4 "Grasshopper" at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. (U.S. Air Force...
Aircorps Aviation celebrates the restoration of 2 World War II-era planes
The Bemidji Pioneer, Minn. via Yahoo News· 11 months agoJul. 25—BEMIDJI — Aircorps Aviation opened its hangar at the Bemidji Regional Airport last Friday, July 21, for the public to witness two completed planes — A P-51C Thunderbird and P-47 Thunderbolt ...
Famed Wright Field test pilot dies at 101
Dayton Daily News, Ohio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDec. 6—Famed Air Force test pilot Kenneth Oscar Chilstrom died Saturday. Chilstrom was a retired colonel and author of "Test Flying at Old Wright Field." According to a brief online obituary ...
Here comes the 20th Annual Apple Valley Airshow
Victorville Daily Press via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe 20th Annual Apple Valley Airshow and NAPA Auto Parts Car Show is preparing to roar and soar into the High Desert on Oct. 7. The Apple Valley Airport...
William Tell Has Fighter Pilots Competing For Trophies Once Again
THE WARZONE via Yahoo News· 9 months agoWilliam Tell Air Force William Tell is back. One of the U.S. Air Force’s most famous and storied air...
Thousands mark 80th D-Day anniversary at air show
BBC via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoThousands of people are attending a two-day air show to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day. World War Two aircraft have taken to the skies, joined by historical re-enactors on the ground, at ...
Austin-area World War II veterans meet President Biden in surprise visit to the White House
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWASHINGTON — It was a trip of a lifetime commemorating National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day...
Around Town: 'New' Kite Festival coming; Lt. Col. Wilkerson to speak
Times-News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThis week's edition of "Around Town" features a popular local kite festival that's making a return...
