Story and photos by Ken Kula I’ll soon turn 64 years old and have seen quite a few military aircraft over the years. I remember visiting cousins in Massachusetts, near the (former) NAS South Weymouth base. There was a...
Story and photos by Ken Kula Republic Aviation built over 15,000 examples of the P-47 Thunderbolt, in several versions. The first flight of a prototype aircraft was on May 6, 1941, or seven months prior to the Pearl Harbor...
Photos and story by Ken Kula Here is a collection of Boeing transports built during the 1960s through the 1980s. We’ll focus on a pair of early short to medium ranged airliners, the B-727 tri-jet and twin B-737. Of...
by Ken Kula · Published September 24, 2022 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,...
Photos by Ken Kula It was a dozen years ago, and the Los Angeles International Airport was a hopping place. A gateway top the the Pacific region and Asia, nonstop European flights were beginning to trickle in with the...
I’m 63 years old, and have been nuts about airplanes since I was a child. I’ve chased airplanes in picture books, at air shows, and later in life, as a photographer and writer trying to record aviation history. That’s...
Story by Bill Sarama, photos by Howard German, Bob Finch and Bill Sarama Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, VA, had their big Air Show on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 16, 17 and 18, 2022, and it...
by Ken Kula · Published November 19, 2022 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...
Photos by Scott Zeno and Ken Kula, story by 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) non-profit...
Photos by Ken Kula 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 thumbnail for...
By Ken Kula 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 odd-numbered cylinders...
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 radical and diverse venues during...
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August 24, 2010
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EAA AIRVENTURE OSHKOSH 2022 – FACTS AND FIGURES FOR A RECORD-SETTING YEAR
August 6, 2022
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The USAF’s 2016 Phinal Phantom II Tour
March 10, 2017
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A Look Back… Ken Kula’s 2016 Year In Review
January 16, 2017
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Photorecon attends the 2023 Reno Races
September 19, 2023
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Skip Holm attends last Reno Air Race
September 19, 2023
