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Author: Mark Hrutkay

air racing / featured

Reno Air Races 1964 to 50th Anniversary

  There have been few events in sports that manage to last 50 years. Fortunately the National Championship Air Races at Reno are one of them. This year will mark the 50th running of this race during September 11th-15th...

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Jane and Charlie

Another sad day in the 2013 airshow season happened on June 22nd in Dayton. Jane Wicker was sitting on the “top” of the left bottom wing of her Stearman while Charlie Schwenker made a low inverted pass. Instead of...

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Splash In 2013

For the last 6 years, as a part of Sun n Fun, Kermit Weeks has hosted an event as unique as his Fantasy of Flight attraction.   You see when Kermit was looking for a place for Fantasy of Flights,...

bombers / fighters / museums / warbirds

Golden Hill

Mark Hrutkay People love to look inside things, inside a locked closet.  In the attic.  Inside a locked safe.   For fliers and aviation historians for some reason closed hangars are more interesting than open ones.  I was fortunate growing...

air force / demo teams / fighters

Draken International

Draken International is a company on the rise.  They provide contract air services for military use and are based at the Lakeland Linder Regional Airport in Lakeland Florida.  In simple terms, they can perform any mission that military aircraft...

meetings / warbirds

Aaron Tippin at Sun n Fun

Sun n Fun is a great air show. I’m spending the day wandering the grounds, taking pictures and talking.  When I go to a show, I rarely know what I’m going to write about,  I get there and start...

bombers / demo teams / fighters / warbirds

Valiant Air Command Show 2013

The Valiant Air Command kicks off the warbird season with a great show every spring.  For well over 30 years they have gathered enthusiasts and warplanes to Titusville Florida for one of the longest running events in aviation. This...

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Bill Yoak has Gone West

  Earlier this morning on March 12, 2013, WIlliam Yoak of Lewisburg, West Virginia went west to join generations of aviators.  Bill wasn’t someone who’s name popped up in magazines everyday, but he made some significant contributions in his...

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The Green Flag Dropped at Reno

It’s here and we are back.  If there was ever anything that was up in the air in the past, it would be the 2012 Reno Air Races.  After last year’s tragic accident, the thought that the Races would...

assignments / featured / friends / warbirds

Oshkosh 2012

Oshkosh isn’t about airplanes, it’s about people. Think abstractly; people created (not invented mind you) the need to fly,, then airplanes were invented so men could become aviators. Without people there would be no need for airplanes. On a...

museums

A visit to Kingman Army Airfield Museum 2012

  Kingman is a name that is a part of WWII history, a place where men learned to fight in the skies and then after the war was won, their aircraft were brought there to die.  Everyone has seen...

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