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Vintage WW2-era US Navy plane flies from US to UK for series of VE Day events   

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Operated by the Dallas-Fort Worth Wing of the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) and based in Lancaster in the US state of Texas, the aircraft arrived at the Imperial War Museum (IWM) airfield at Duxford near Cambridge, UK, on Monday, April 28 April 2025, after its approximately 4,800-mile (7,680km) ferry flight from Texas.

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Ditching Demystified: What Every Pilot Should Know About Landing on Water

Flying Magazine

I’ll start with a confession: I have never ditched an airplane. I don’t have any plans to ditch an airplane. The first consideration in ditching is to decide if you might have to, and to plan the flight to avoid situations in which you may. But notice: the airplane floated. Will I Have To?

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Re-Engined Philippine Mars Ready For Final Flight

AV Web

Coulson Flying Tanker head Wayne Coulson told Nanaimo News Now that after months of maintenance and the engine swaps it’s now up to the weather to decide the schedule for the ferry flight that will ultimately take it from its home base in Port Alberni on British Columbia’s Vancouver Island to the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson.

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The Times They Are a Changin’: Anatomy of a Schedule Change

Cranky Flier

It could be charters or maintenance ferry flights… anything that doesn’t fit into regular schedule operations falls into that bucket. So when you hear of big airlines saying they are running out of flight numbers, they aren’t making that up. At the very end, there are a few hundred that aren’t assigned.

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Vintage Flying Machines Acquires AD-5W Skyraider For Its Growing Collection

Vintage Aviation News

A Korean War-era airplane will always hold a special place in our hangar. Preparing for the Ferry Flight As part of the aircrafts transition to its new home, Job Savage is undergoing a thorough checkout process under the instruction of Tony Wood, a seasoned pilot known for flying the Cavanaugh Flight Museums Skyraiders.

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Owner of Crashed San Diego Airplane Identified

Flying Magazine

Shapiro is a prominent music executive and drummer, and a pilot who owns the flight school and ferry flight business Velocity Aviation. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has reported finding parts of the jet beneath power lines about 2 miles southeast of the airport.

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TAAG Angolan Airlines takes delivery of its first Airbus A220: pictures 

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The airline followed this up with a further order for nine additional aircraft from three lessors at the Paris Airshow in 2023, bringing its total commitment to the aircraft to 15 airplanes. Airbus The latest addition to the airline’s fleet is set to depart Canada in the coming days for its ferry flight to its new base at Quatro de Fevereiro International (..)