Marine Harrier plane arrives at Great Park restoration hangar for future aviation museum
Once complete, the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum will showcase more than 40 aircraft from military history.
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The P-51 Mustang and the man who won the World War II air war with it
It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...
Europe and Canada are eyeing alternatives to American-made fighter jets. Here’s why
That could impact foreign sales of the Lockheed Martin-produced F-35 and other advanced U.S. jets like the F-16. As Russia’s ...
David J. Bercuson: Carney's 'idiotic' decision to consider scrapping the F-35
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to tell Defence Minister Bill Blair to re-examine the contract that Canada signed ...
Sole surviving Battle of Britain hero John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway who was shot down four times dies aged 105
THE last of The Few has died, age 105. Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway had been the sole surviving pilot from the Battle ...
Europe and Canada eyeing alternatives to American-made fighter jets. Here’s why
President Trump has left NATO members questioning whether Washington will honor the trans-Atlantic alliance's commitment to ...
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Colombia to decide which NATO fighter jets to buy within months, minister says
BOGOTA - Colombia will decide within months from which NATO country it will purchase fighter jets ... its fleet of more than 30-year-old Israeli Kfir planes for more than a decade and is ...
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Last surviving RAF fighter ace from the Battle of Britain dies at 105
He was 105 years old. Announcing the death of John ... Hemmingway bailed out behind German lines after his Spitfire fighter took multiple hits from anti-aircraft fire, parachuting into enemy ...
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The P-51 Mustang and the man who won the World War II air war with it
Frustrated, the well-connected Hitchcock turned to his old friend John Gilbert Winant ... relentless in his quest to adapt the aircraft into the best fighter on the Western Front.
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Sole surviving Battle of Britain hero John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway who was shot down four times dies aged 105
At the height of the Battle of Britain, Hemingway, then a 21-year-old Pilot Officer, was twice forced to bail out of his Hurricane fighter plane in the space of a week. Incredibly, one of his ...
The warship that shows why the US Navy is falling behind China
A blizzard of design changes by the military have put production of the USS Constellation years behind schedule and millions ...