2022… Edwards AFB Then and Now
Edwards Air Force Base, the birth place of where it all began for so many, including myself. After a 12 year hiatus, Edwards opened it’s doors to the general public once again. This was...
Category: Aviation History
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)...
Joint Base Andrews 2022 Air & Space Expo
After two years of Covid-19 lock-downs, the USAF Academy Wings of Blue and US Army Golden Knights parachute teams were back in the sky over JB Andrews, MD. Jumping from 12,000 feet and unfurling...
March Field Air Museum, Riverside, CA
First things first: If you are going to be in the Los Angeles area, make it a point to visit this museum. It’s really something quite special. Equally important are getting there and the...
Joint Base Andrews Air and Space Expo 2022
Joint Base Andrews hosted their first air show since 2019 on September 17th and 18th, the 18th being the 75th Birthday of the United States Air Force. Among us, serious air show fans, it...
Rapid Pacific 2022 Stops at Hyakuri Air Base, Japan
Masaki Komatsu caught part of the record-setting Rapid Pacific 2022 deployment of German Air Force fighters, tankers and transports as they left the Hyakuri Air Base in Japan, bound for Singapore. The entire group...
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...
2022 Fokker Scourge/Flying Circus/World War I Airshow At The Golden Age Air Museum
Berks County in southeastern Pennsylvania is rich with history and heritage. The region is well-known for its Pennsylvania Dutch population and culture. Farms that have been in Pennsylvania Dutch families for generations dot the...
2022’s Chicago Air and Water Show
The sound of freedom graced the windy city sky line on August 20th and 21st, with the first full airshow in Chicago since the pandemic. The Chicago Air and Water Show took shape on...
REPORT FROM THE DOVER AIR MUSEUM:
Friday, August 26th — Well, I’m on my way down US-13 to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, OBX, for a short vacation prior to the Oceana trip later in September. Of course I...
Old Gems from Bob Finch
Aeronca 7AC floatplane Bob Finch has some very old slides. He has reproduced a dozen images here as scans from slides in the late 1950s, from Teterboro, NJ and Idlewild Airport, NY. WACO RNF,...
