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First Emirates Airbus A350 set to arrive in Dubai as airline takes delivery

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The newest Emirates member will be powered by a blend of jet fuel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) when the aircraft makes its ferry flight. And in March 2024, the completed plane was photographed with just its tail painted in the Emirates colors.

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Ferry Flight Airlines Airline Tail

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

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MAY 6, 2025

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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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the North American AJ Savage

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JULY 3, 2025

Navy North American AJ-1 Savage (BuNo 122590) in flight over southern California (USA). This was the first production aircraft, and it already crashed and burned near Bedford, Virginia (USA) on 22 June 1950 on a ferry flight from Edwards Air Force Base, California to Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland (USA).

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JANUARY 27, 2025

After going through a series of conventional and unconventional designs, engineers Clarence “Kelly” Johnson and Hall Hibbard drew up a twin boom tail design, with an Allison V-1710 inline engine on the front of each boom ahead of the singular, cantilever wing, and a fuselage pod in between the two engines and booms.

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Gordon H. Root, a Mustang Pilot Not To Be Forgotten: Honoring a Rochester, NY P-51 Mustang Pilot Lost Too Soon

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JUNE 7, 2025

Root was tasked with ferrying a P-51B-5-NA Mustang, serial number 43-6529, from Niagara Falls, New York to Newark, New Jersey, where it would be shipped to the European theater. After a brief reunion, Lt. Root resumed his mission. At approximately 1500 Eastern War Time, he took off from Rochester Airport.

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Pilot Horizontal Stabilizer Ferry Flight Cockpit

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JUNE 26, 2025

1 P1344 was one of 32 Hampdens on a ferry flight from Sumburgh in the Shetland Islands to northern Russia in 1942, destined to protect Arctic convoys. The tail boom is a new build, with the damaged original retained for display, and the tailplane is approximately 25% original. Since then, the superb Vickers Wellington Mk.X

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JULY 4, 2025

1 P1344, was among 32 Hampdens undertaking a ferry flight from Sumburgh in the Shetland Islands to northern Russia in 1942, part of a mission to support Arctic convoy operations. A photo from 2014 showing the Hampden’s tail boom. The tail boom is a newly built replacement, with the damaged original preserved for display.

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Awesome at 80: Europe’s last Catalina flying boat remains air show favorite

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JUNE 21, 2024

There, it was to be repurposed as a passenger-carrying aircraft for tourist flights and air safaris in Zimbabwe in southern Africa. The tail was completely blown off, the port float was virtually shot away, and the port wing was damaged. Numerous holes had been made in the plane’s hull, so it started to take on water and sink.

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JUNE 14, 2024

A young Art Lacey before the ferry flight. Next, the aircraft found itself at several Army Airfields across the country, from Rome, New York to Cincinnati, Ohio, to Independence, Kansas before ending up at Altus in November 1945, one of many planes to go from the factories to the scrapyards at the end of the war.

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JANUARY 15, 2025

Sporting tail numbers 28000 and 29000, the VC-25As have been transporting heads of state for the US since 1987. Modifications were made to the aircraft to install a swing tail for easier loading, and the upper fuselage extended for more cargo capacity. The end result was four 747s with three times the cargo volume of a 747-400F.

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Short Solent at the Oakland Aviation Museum

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APRIL 30, 2025

All three of these airliners had two decks for passengers, with seats that could be folded down to be turned into beds for overnight flights, two freight compartments in the nose and the tail, stairways to access the two decks, and a galley to provide inflight meals and refreshments.

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CAF Jayhawk Wing UC-78 Bobcat Restoration Begins After Storm Damage

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Despite the challenges, the Jayhawk Wing is determined to restore the damaged Bobcat, which sustained most of its damage to the tail section. A dedicated group of Jayhawk members made two trips to Midland to prepare N44795 for its ferry flight to Wichita. In 1994, the plane was returned to CAF Headquarters in Midland, Texas.

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Rare C-49 ‘WildKat’ Makes First Appearance at Reading World War II Weekend [NEEDS PHOTO SWAP]

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JULY 12, 2024

The C-47 also had an astrodome positioned in the cabin roof, strengthened floor components, a double cargo door and a shortened tail-cone for glider-towing shackles, all of which the C-49 did not have. In January 2017, it was cleared for a maintenance ferry flight from Frederick to Tulsa.

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Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

For ferry flights, two 410-gallon tanks could be installed in the bomb bay, giving the bomber a 3,400-mile range. The guns from nose to tail were as follows: The electrically powered and hydraulically actuated Bendix chin turret (B-17G only) was operated by the bombardier when he wasnt head down in the Norden bombsight.

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National Air and Space Museum Prepares for a New WWII Gallery

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

On July 25, 1944, Darbois took this Bf 109G-6 (Werknummer 160756 ‘Yellow 4’ of Jagdgeschwader 4) on a formation ferry flight over northern Italy. This version of the famed Wildcat fighter was in fact identical to the Grumman-built F4F-4 but with four.50

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Hangar Torque Ferry Flight Thrust

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National Air and Space Museum Prepares for a New WWII Gallery

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