Gliding the Polar Vortex – The Perlan II
Photos by John Freedman and Ken Kula The Windward Performance Perlan II is a one-of-a-kind high altitude glider. Designed to fly closer to the edge of space than any other crewed aircraft, record breaking...
Author: Ken Kula
Fifty Warbird Photos From the 2022 AirVenture Show
Here are 50 photos of warbird aircraft at the 2022 EAA AirVenture event at Oshkosh, Wisconsin’s Wittman Regional Airport. You can hover over each thumbnail for the type of aircraft, and click the...
The 42nd Annual Simsbury Fly-In (and Car Show and Food Truck Festival, too)
Photos by Scott Zeno and Ken Kula The 42nd Annual Simsbury Fly-In (and Car Show and Food Truck Festival, too) was held on Sunday, September 25, 2022. The airport Is operated as a 501(c)(3)...
Radial Engine Round Up – at AirVenture 2022
Radial aircraft engines have been around for more than a century. Predominantly air-cooled, many engines of the last 100 years or so were lighter than their liquid-cooled counterparts that developed similar horsepower. Their characteristic...
Fun Fly Zone Activities at EAA AirVenture 2022
Photography by John Freedman and Ken Kula “Only in Oshkosh” is a rather new Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) saying that describes the activities at the annual Oshkosh Fly-In and Convention. One of the more...
Fifteen More Fantastic Warbirds
MiG-17F at a Nellis AFB air show. Bell P-39 Aircobra at an Eglin AFB air show. Curtiss P-40 Warhawk during an evening air show at Brunswick, Maine. Another P-40 in the Warbird compound at...
Giants At EAA AirVenture 2022
Delta Airlines’ Airbus A-350-900 arriving over the runways at Oshkosh, Wisconsin at the EAA AirVenture 2022. More than 10,000 aircraft pass over the western shores of Lake Winnebago during the seven-day celebration known as...
EAA AIRVENTURE OSHKOSH 2022 – FACTS AND FIGURES FOR A RECORD-SETTING YEAR
Here’s the official media release with facts and figures of the Experimental Aircraft Association’s (EAA) AirVenture Oshkosh 2022. The massive celebration of aviation is touted as “Unlike Anything Else”, and for a week in...
Australian International Air Show 2001
Miles M3A Falcon Major I was very fortunate to be able to attend the 2001 Australian International Air Show… some twenty years ago. It was as much a trade show as it was an...
Our Air Show Preview for 2022
Night photography, Thunder Over Michigan 2021 by Shawn Byers We’re planning our 2022 event campaign as the year changes on our wall calendars. Already, a pair of hoped-for military air shows have been cancelled...
Last Year and Next Year – Where We’ve Been and What We See Ahead
British Airways Boeing B-787-10 arrives at Boston with resumption of international travel. Our three digital aviation magazines Photorecon.net, ClassicWarbirds.net and CivilAviationWorld.com cover a lot of ground where history is concerned. Through our lenses and keyboards,...
Spotting at KBOS on Sunday August 15, 2021
Lufthansa A-350-900 on final to Runway 4 Right at Boston’s Logan international Airport Here’s a look at a few of the many arrivals to Boston’s Logan International Airport on a beautiful late summer...
The New Hampshire Air National Guard Celebrates The Last of Their Dozen KC-46A Deliveries
The New Hampshire Air National Guard’s 157th Air Refueling Wing reached a milestone recently as their final Boeing KC-46A Pegasus was delivered to their base at the Portsmouth International Airport at Pease, on the...
No Longer Lightweights, LSAs and Ultralights Command Heavy Interest at AirVenture 2021
To me, “Ultralight” used to mean a non-traditional type of aircraft… usually a single seat variety with a little engine and a structure that didn’t instill a lot of confidence. Over the past few...
