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This Remarkably Preserved Messerschmitt Bf 109 was Recovered from an Icy...
(Image: Gary T. Takeuchi; Bf 109E-7 3523 at Planes of Fame, CA) Urban Ghosts has featured Britain’s iconic Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane, heroes of the Battle of Britain, in various...
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ZE934: Visit One of the RAF’s Last Surviving Tornado F3 Interceptors
(Image: Dutch Simba) In the world of post-war military fighter jets, the Tornado F3 is remembered as one of the less remarkable aircraft operated by the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force. Never...
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D-Day: In The Words of Those Who Were There
(Image: National Archives) The horrors of D-Day and the Normandy Landings, which signalled the beginning of Operation Overlord, are almost impossible to comprehend. On the 71st anniversary of the...
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Hawker Typhoon: Tribute to a D-Day Warrior
In the words of my great uncle, Kenneth James Sharman (Royal Engineers) who landed in Normandy on D-Day +1, “the Tiffy was a real friend.” The Hawker Typhoon – designed by Sir Sydney Camm whose rugged...
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That’s All, Brother: Lost D-Day Aircraft Found in Wisconsin Boneyard
(All images and videos via the Commemorative Air Force) At the end of World War Two as the business of rebuilding began, war-weary populations didn’t give much thought to the thousands of military...
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A Definitive Guide to the World’s Last Airworthy Hawker Hurricane Fighters
1 of 18 (Image: John5199; The Shuttleworth Collection’s Sea Hurricane Z7015) 1 of 18 The Hawker Hurricane, workhorse of the Battle of Britain, never captured the public imagination to the same degree...
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Past Lives: The US Army’s 3rd Infantry Division Throughout History
(Image: Debra Kelly) The 3rd Infantry Division was born from war. Constituted on November 12, 1917, and already set for service in World War One, the division’s first members saw combat eight months...
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The AT-6 Texan that Played a Crashed Zero Fighter in Empire of the Sun
(Image: Warner Bros. via Blu-ray.com; crashed ‘Zero’ in Empire of the Sun) There’s a defining scene early on in Steven Spielberg’s 1987 film Empire of the Sun, based on J. G. Ballard’s award-winning...
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Hawker Hurricane Z2389: Restoration of Historic Wartime Fighter
(Image: Alan Wilson) Featured among our recent guide to the world’s last remaining airworthy Hawker Hurricanes – and those potentially capable of flight – Hurricane Mk IIa Z2389 is currently under...
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F-111 Escape Capsule at Dumfries & Galloway Aviation Museum
(All images (excluding video) by Urban Ghosts) For fans of military aircraft and flying, a trip to the Dumfries & Galloway Aviation Museum in Scotland is a real treat. Set amid the repurposed (and...
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Wreckage of X-15 Rocket Plane After Crash Landing at Mud Lake, Nevada
(Image: NASA; rescue personnel and scientists examine the wreck of X-15 ’56-6671′) Battered and torn, leaking propellant as it lay inverted on a dry lake-bed in Nevada, so ended the November 9, 1962...
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Demolition of Abandoned Control Tower at RAF Alconbury (VIDEO)
(All images by footlaunch1 via YouTube) Yesterday we featured the forlorn, abandoned military buildings of RAF Alconbury, a former USAF air base in Cambridgeshire, England. This article reveals video...
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Exploring a Vast, Abandoned Soviet Tank Graveyard at Kharkov, Ukraine
(All images by Caters News) Forlorn and seemingly forgotten, rotting away amid a massive tank graveyard outside the city of Kharkov, these abandoned fighting vehicles may have proved useful to Ukraine...
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Painting a Lockheed F-22 Raptor in Marietta, Georgia
(Image: John Rossino/USAF) It’s just like airbrushing a giant Airfix kit, though on a slightly larger scale using more toxic – and likely secret – paint. These images show employees at the Marietta,...
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‘Tarnish 21′:Tornado GR4A ZA373 Makes Final Flight Through the Mach Loop
(All images courtesy of Howard Sinclair) With the F-35’s introduction into RAF and Royal Navy service still several years away, ever more Panavia Tornado strike aircraft are being retired as the fleet...
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5 Abandoned British Air Bases of RAF Germany
(Image: Ruud Jakobs via Panoramio; abandoned areas of the former RAF Laarbruch) The end of the Second World War brought major changes to Germany. Her borders had been carved up between occupying...
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Rockensussra’s German Tank Graveyard & Dismantling Facility
(Image: via YouTube) These scenes of withdrawn battle tanks, lined up row upon row in a scrapyard immediately west of Rockensussra, Germany, are almost surreal to behold. At a glance the old fighting...
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Abandoned A-4 Skyhawk Attack Jet in Kingsville, Texas
A generous number of large American military airfields feature nearby satellite runways often dating back to World War Two, generally abandoned or used for army combat training. Guam Northwest Field...
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1976 F-18 Hornet Advertisement Heralds Multi-Role Combat Planes
Featured in May on the blog of Aviation Week Network, this retro advertisement for the then-brand new McDonnell Douglas F-18 Hornet was published in the April 19, 1976 issue of Aviation Week and Space...
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Former Wellesbourne Mountford Spitfire Replica (N3310) Displayed atop...
(Image: Maggie Harnew; Spitfire N3310 replica at Lodge Hill Garage, Abingdon) A Supermarine Spitfire replica built for the 1969 movie Battle of Britain may have become a permanent fixture on the roof...
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