Author: Ken Kula

Some Aircraft of Interest at the 2021 EAA AirVenture Oshkosh Gathering of All Things Aviation

Culver LCA Here’s a brief bit of coverage from the aviation festivities found in Oshkosh, Wisconsin during the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of the 2021 edition of AirVenture. Over 10,000 aircraft and hundreds of thousands of pilots, crew, friends,...

EAA’s AirVenture 2021 = EAA AirVenture 2020 (Plus One) And Then Some

  P-51 Mustang at a past AirVenture EAA’s AirVenture 2021 = EAA AirVenture 2020 (Plus One) And Then Some The AirVenture 2020 aviation celebration in Oshkosh, Wisconsin was forced to be cancelled over health concerns associated with the Covid...

Looking Back, the 2008 Rhode Island International Air Show

The 2008 Rhode Island International Air Show was a wide-ranging celebration of military and civilian aviation.   Some of the highlights were: the Royal Air Force’s Red Arrows were completing their North American Tour, and arrived with their nine-plus...

My Trip to MCAS Kaneohe Bay and Hawaii in 2007

Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay is located on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Just prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl harbor, the original aviation facilities were built for Navy PBY Catalina patrol bombers. In fact, construction hadn’t...

Seaplane Spotting in British Columbia, in 2009

August, 2009 was hazy and warm in the Canadian Province of British Columbia . Unfortunately, forest fires contributed to the haze, and stole some of the boldness of the Abbotsford Air Show that year. Still, the northwestern corner of...

Remembering the First Airbus A-380 Arrival at KJFK

Airbus’s A-380 super-sized airliner was launched at the end of the year 2000. A little more than four years later, the first flight of a prototype occurred, on April 27, 2005. European and U.S. type certification occurred some twenty...

Our T-33 Scrapbook

Photos from the ClassicWarbird.net and Photorecon.net team. The first Lockheed T-33 first flew 73 years ago in March! I heard a story once, a few decades ago, which seems to be apropos here. A few military aircraft enthusiasts were...

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