Report and photos by Ken Kula Here’s a look back at civil aviation before the so-called COVID Pandemic of 2019. I took a trip in August 2018 to Warsaw and Radom, Poland, beginning and ending at Boston’s Logan Airport....
Cmdr. Frank Erickson hoists Igor Sikorsky during the development of the hoist capable helicopter in the early 1940s in Bridgeport, Conn. Erickson went on to fly many missions, save many lives, train many pilots and redefine Coast Guard aviation....
Eurofighter 2000 Story by Ken Kula, photos by Howard German, Corey Beitler, Scott Zeno, Jeff Serpa and Ken Kula The modern Italian Air Force was founded on March 28, 1923 by the King of Italy, Vittorio Emmanuel III. At...
Story and Photos by Ken Kula Amphibious aircraft are quite versatile… they can operate from either land or from water surfaces. This scrapbook shows a wide variety of amphibians… those with built-in landing gear in their structure. Many other...
NWA B-747-400 TYPE RETIRED IN 2008 Photos and story by Ken Kula All thirty aircraft that you see were active in the 2006 to 2007 timeframe. Today, they are but a memory. Either the aircraft typw ahs been phased...
Story and photos by Ken Kula The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II entered service with the U. S. Navy in 1961. Later, the U.S. Marine Corps and Air Force adopted the supersonic fighter-bomber as one of the main weapons...
Story and photos by Roland Dansereau On the 12th of November, 2022, the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) had their seventh annual airshow at Dallas Executive Airfield, their home base. Dallas Executive is where the CAF houses the almighty B-29...
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...
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