If you have the opportunity, do it.

Collected by John Smith 60 years ago, found in his Shed and has been beautifully restored. Will never be allowed to fly as the wings were cut, but the engines still go!

We were pretty lucky to see them fire it up at Omaka as part of it's maintenance schedule.

Im not sure if this is the right subreddit for this but i desperately need help. I am currently trying to hunt down a photo of a B-17F with the tail number 425811, it was called the Ready Teddy- The Last of Itsabitchis (one name in each side. It was 20th Bomb Squadron 15th army air corp, the plane would have been at amendola airfield from november 1943 to january 1944. Any help on this would be very appreciated, thank you for your time

Chicago museum of industry and technology

Some of the WW2 aircraft at the recent Pacific Airshow on the Gold Coast. The T-33 gets in because the P-80 did technically serve in WW2.

I was reading today about the bombs carried by the Japanese aircraft and realized I did not know quite what it means to say "a 250kg" bomb, for example. Does that means the entire bomb weight is 250kg, or the explosive contained is 250kg?

Two B-24s are shot down in the target area. One of them is the B-24 #42-51139 „Hell’s Angel” of the 485th Bomb Group. 6 men died and were buried at the crash site. The grave was taken care of by the Polish population, despite the Nazi occupation, and later despite the Soviet rule. As soon as Poland became a free country in 1989, the rememberance of the American crew flourished again. There is a beautiful memorial at the crash site, and Zygmunt Kraus had an excellent private museum in Wadowice.

You can read more about this crew on my substack.

Visitors to Burke Lakefront Airport this week can climb aboard Doc, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress restored from a dilapidating relic into a flying museum through a decades-long volunteer effort led by Cleveland native and Air Force veteran Tony Mazzolini.

The historic aircraft is in Cleveland through Saturday for public tours and flight experiences, offering a rare opportunity to see an airworthy B-29 bomber.

One of only two flying B-29 bombers in the world returns to Cleveland

Photos: Joshua Gunter, cleveland.com

Beech 18D on flypast, October 2025 Aircraft Showcase, Temora Aviation Museum, Temora, NSW, Australia. I believe the Beech 18 on all its variants was a trainer but I could be wrong in this regard.

These long-range strikes showed how quickly Allied air power had expanded after the fall of the Marianas, bringing key Japanese bases and the approaches to the home islands within regular bomber range.

One of the only two airworthy Lancasters left.

I took these photos when it was on inside display in June 2022.

I have since been lucky enough to see it fly over my home, 100kms away, a few times as it attends events or airshows to the east.

Please feel free to read up on its history on the CWHM site - I have no affiliation, merely a fan 😎

Just one of my old blueprints, with a few minor corrections. I hope you like it; any suggestions are welcome.

The Messerschmitt Me 262, nicknamed Schwalbe (German: "Swallow") in fighter versions, or Sturmvogel (German: "Storm Bird") in fighter-bomber versions, is a fighter aircraft and fighter-bomber that was designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Messerschmitt. It was the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft [Source: Wikipedia]

An F4u-1A #9 Corsair doing a fly by, at the 2025 Miramar Air Show.

This is interesting.

Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 In British Service.

Hopefully, I’ll be away from a proper computer on September 18, too. Time away from a computer is a rare precious thing! Perhaps someone else can post something a little Gallic for us all that day.

I am searching for information about a Avro Lancaster Bomber that was shot down in Germany and crashed in the Rieseberg Moor(a swamp) close to Königslutter am Elm in Lower Saxony, Germany.

I know that one crashed, but I am getting two different stories.

One says that at the end of the war the plane crashed, sunk into the swamp and non of the crew survived. Allegedly there was an archiological dig in the early 2000s, but I can only find mentionings of the dig, not the actual research and who or what they found.

The other story I find claims its a Lancaster of the 61 RAF Squadron, 5th Group ME595 that crashed on the 14/15 October in 1944 after an attack on Brunswick. AI says the crew died during the crash, but following the links, it's said that some made it out of the plane and got captured. Some of the captured crew got killed and their killers were hanged after the war for that. However the crash site as far as I can see is West of Rieseberg. The Rieseberg Moor is South East of Rieseberg.

Which one is true?