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

Aerotime

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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Legendary

Photographic Logbook

Sun 'n' Fun 2006 marked the airshow debut of the F-22 Raptor with its jaw-dropping vectored thrust capabilities. I watched this airplane execute maneuvers I had never witnessed before and was awed by the precision and poetry expressed by the pilot at the controls. My first real airshows were Sun 'n' Fun 2005 and 2006.

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Bomber Camp

Plane and Pilot

The B-17 is more than just an airplane. Also known as the Flying Fortress, these airplanes flew in every theater from start to finish, but will always be remembered for the job they did in the hostile skies over Europe as the workhorse of the Mighty Eighth Air Force. There are few airplanes as emblematic as the Flying Fortress.

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