A Trip Down Airline Memory Lane, Part One
How many of these airlines do you remember, or have flown on? The airlines in this set of photos have not only ceased to operate as brands, but many of their aircraft pictured here...
Author: Ken Kula
D-Day Squadron Prepares for Epic Atlantic Ocean Crossing in May
An amazing recreation of World War II transport operations will be assembled in Connecticut in just a few weeks. The D-Day Squadron is the American contingent of a larger anniversary commemoration in Great Britain...
“Legends In Flight” – the 2019 Joint Base Andrews Air and Space Expo Preview
“Legends In Flight” is the theme for the 2019 Air and Space Expo at Joint Base Andrews, just off of the Capital Beltway in Camp Springs, Maryland. Andrews serves the Washington DC area, and...
Stratotanker 57-1419 “Goes West”, But That’s a Good Thing!
Last pass of a 157th ARW KC-135R over the runway at Pease ANGB on March 24, 2019 at 1419 military time! At various times in history, the phrase “going west” has meant to die,...
P-51 Mustang Scrapbook
This feature first appeared in our sister warbird magazine – http://ClassicWarbirds.net North American Aviation’s P-51 Mustang changed the course of World War II, the Korean War, and quite possibly a few other conflicts....
Alton Bay, New Hampshire’s 2019 Ice Runway Season Is Finished
First Published in our sister journal, CivilAviationWorld.com The Vernal Equinox, otherwise known as the first day of astronomical Spring in the Northern hemisphere, occurs on March 20th of every year. In America, the...
I Was Fortunate to Have Worked the Concorde
This past week marks the 50th anniversary of the first flight of a Concorde SST prototype. A technological marvel half a century ago, it still is one of aviation’s most important accomplishments. A while...
Sikorsky’s Sea Kings No Longer Rule the Waves
The prototype Sikorsky HSS-2 Sea King made its’ first flight on March 11, 1959. There are still some later-built versions in use today, some sixty years ago, attesting to the design’s usefulness and reliability....
Royal Air Force Tornadoes Are Retired From Service
Panavia GR.4 of the Royal Air Force By the time you read this article, the RAF’s workhorse Tornado GR.4/GR.4A attack jets will have flown all but their final few hours of their forty year...
My 2018 Memories
Aviation is alive and well, as I witnessed during my travels in 2018. Innovations are still forthcoming, history is still revered, and air shows and other presentations still draw large crowds. I traveled outside...
