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Volunteers Replicating 1917 Airplanes in 2017

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Volunteers Replicating 1917 Airplanes in 2017

If you get the chance to visit the VAFM in person, your first priority should be to get a tour from Andy Parks; there's nobody else in the world with his knowledge of the people in the collection as well as personal experience of aviation and with building WWI replicas. But after that, talk to some of the mechanics and ask them how they build WWI airplanes with the materials, fuels, and regulations of a century later. 

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Perfect Christmas Present for WWI Aviation Buffs!

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Perfect Christmas Present for WWI Aviation Buffs!

Captain Hedley's story about falling out of his airplane, The Luckiest Man Alive by Jack Stokes Ballard is published, and in time for Christmas, too!

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Thanksgiving for Aviation Improvements

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Thanksgiving for Aviation Improvements

Things to be thankful for in aviation...

Better weather prediction (so you don't find yourself stuck above a sea of clouds with no way to know what's under them)

Radar (so maybe you can know what's under the clouds)

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Now Entering the Final Year of the First Air War

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Now Entering the Final Year of the First Air War

Meanwhile, the Germans would concentrate more on training and also would be fighting more defensively, conserving their aircraft and pilots. By the fall of 1918, the fortunes of German ground forces would be declining, but the German air force would have some of its best months of the war.

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Overview of WWI Aviation on the 99th Anniversary of Armistice Day

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Overview of WWI Aviation on the 99th Anniversary of Armistice Day

November 11th, 1917 - the soon-to-be famous, the soon-to-be dead, and the soon-to-be adrift in a world not at war, one year from now.

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