For Britain, the 1956 Suez Crisis proved to be an overwhelming military success followed by a crushing political defeat, as Steve Evans explains https://t.co/xkSCT2Cz1e
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#suezcrisis
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Already having languished outside for more than three decades, Boeing 707-330B CC-CCG of LAN-Chile has been relocated to a new position within the grounds of the Museo Aeronáutico de Chile https://t.co/GCN4b5qxGT
Image credit: Álvaro Romero
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A dramatic June night in 1940 proved there was little ‘calm before the storm’ in the days leading up to the Battle of Britain, as Dilip Sarkar explains https://t.co/iXUlnzj6ow
Image credit: Air Ministry
#worldwartwo#aviation#avgeek
The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum has temporarily adorned Avro Lancaster ‘VR-A’ with RCAF 431 Squadron markings on its port side https://t.co/6eK8oNw5pr
Image credit: CWHM
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It was only a matter of time before the first airline-operated Airbus A380 would be preserved, and Dirk Grothe found it https://t.co/YLwfBHb1xe
Image credit: Dirk Grothe
#airbusa380#aviation#avgeek
The restoration of Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress 44-85813 Champaign Lady to potentially airworthy condition is continuing to make steady progress https://t.co/fWL8euVfd7
Image credit: Tony Sacketos
#b17flyingfortress
Though comprehensively overshadowed by the Ju 52, the lineage linking the Junkers G 31 to its more famous relative is clear. Jozef Mols tells its story https://t.co/wKWxQs9Eua
Image credit: Bundesarchiv
#junkersg31
The Montrose Air Station Museum in Angus, Scotland took delivery of Westland Sea King recently https://t.co/mmBVorxhuP
Image credit: Neil Werninck - Montrose Air Station Museum
#montroseairstationmuseum#seaking
The MSÖ Air & Space Museum in Sivrihisar, Turkey, is celebrating the return to flight of its Flugwerk-built Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8/N https://t.co/HsrhqmO1Yk
Image credit: Ali İsmet Öztürk
#fw190#aviation#avgeek
There have been many important British airliner prototypes, but BAe 146 G-LUXE – which enjoyed three different ‘lives’ – is the last of them. Stephen Skinner looks back https://t.co/xrbmRfwMmV
Image credit: BAE Systems
#bae146#aviation#avgeek
The forward fuselage of BAC 1-11 G-AVMO has arrived at Gatwick Aviation Museum (GAM) https://t.co/rGz1RMZEq9
Image credit: GAM
#gatwickaviationmuseum#aviation#avgeek
Sixty years ago, an Australian Sabre squadron helped defend the skies of Malaysia during the Indonesian Confrontation, as Andrew Thomas recalls https://t.co/WOHmWfDQi4
Image credit: RAAF
#sabre#raaf#aviation#avgeek
Jamie Ewan provides a rundown of the complete Vulcans surviving worldwide in part one of a two-part series https://t.co/PS9SO2gMdn
Image credit: Ben Stanley Hall
#vulcan#aviation#avgeek
Many aircraft failed to live up to their potential – the Westland Welkin gave phenomenal performance, but its time soon passed, as Tony Buttler explains https://t.co/qDnQJvaHnx
Image credit: Flying
#westlandwelkin#raf
On 27 April Bruno Ducreux, head of Aéro Restauration Service at Darois completed two test flights in replica Caudron C460 Rafale F-WDEK following restoration and modifications https://t.co/w9GWmfutyU
Image credit: Jean-Marc Poincin
#caudronc460rafale