USS Langley CV-1 in June, 1927 – US Navy photo G-460108 Photos in this article are from the collections of the U.S. Navy and National Naval Aviation Museum, Corey Beitler, Scott Jankowski, Ken Middleton, Shawn Byers, David Campion, Ken...
After the advent of the Jet Age, large intercontinental jetliners routinely had four engines. The American Boeing B-707 and B-747, and the Douglas DC-8 designs had four; the British Vickers VC-10 had four as did the DeHavilland Comet. Even...
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...
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