The Westmoreland County Airshow 2023
Story and photos by Shawn Byers It has been a few years since I was last at this Airshow at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport. The timing was such that I added it to my season roster enroute to Western...
Category: Airliners
The Flying Colors of Oshkosh – EAA AirVenture 2023 Hues
Photos by Anne Taylor, Scott Jankowski, Andrew Spry, Ken Kula When you have around 10,000 airplanes to compare color schemes against each other, it is without a doubt difficult to pick a favorite. At the EAA’s AirVenture 2023, that’s...
Round-Engined Aircraft at AirVenture 2023 Scrapbook
Photos by Ken Kula and Andrew Spry There were loads of radial engines (sometimes called “round engines”) to be seen and heard at this year’s EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. Antique/Classic and Warbird aircraft powered by radials were numerous, and some...
Foreign Aerial Tanker Refueling Scrapbook
Royal Air Force Jaguars refueling in-flight. Story by Ken Kula, photos by Del Laughery, Ken Middleton, Scott Zeno and Ken Kula British and American military air arms developed methods to refuel aircraft in mid-flight before World War II. Beginning...
A Brief Opportunity to Watch Planes at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport
American Airlines B-787-8 Sometimes the thought of a five-hour layover at an airport is met with dread… lines of passengers, noise, boredom, and many other detractions. Due to rain showers and heat indexes over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, I skipped...
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2023 Update #2
Story and photos by Ken Kula The Sunday before AirVenture Oshkosh begins is filled with last minute arranging and rearranging, and putting final touches to booths and displays. A great deal of aircraft arrive too; they could be for...
Douglas DST/DC-3/C-47/C-53 etc. Scrapbook
Story and photos by Ken Kula The “Douglas Commercial” DC-3 is a large, twin engine commercial transport that the Douglas Aircraft Company produced from roughly 1936 to 1943. Military variants include the C-47, which was produced continuously from the...
Spotting From Deer Island, Boston Massachusetts, May 7, 2023
ITA A-330 arriving to Boston’s Logan International Airport Story and photos by Ken Kula An early Springtime spotting trip to a new location (for me) east of Boston’s Logan International Airport (KBOS) yielded some pretty good results on an...
Beech Commercial Transport Twins
Story and photos by Ken Kula The Beech Aircraft Company was formed in 1932. Walter Beech was President of the company, his wife Olive Ann was the company’s Secretary. Wichita, Kansas was and is the first and only home...
The DHC-7 Dash Seven Story
Pan Am Express/Ransome Airlines Dash 7 at Boston, Massachusetts Story and photos by Ken Kula De Havilland Canada designed a niche airliner in the 1970s, which became known as the ” Dash 7″. The DHC-7 was a four-engined turboprop...
Embraer Turboprop Transports
Story and photos by Ken Kula Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer S.A. is based in Sao Paulo. The company was formed in 1969 as a government corporation with a government-appointed president. The company began building domestic military and civilian aircraft...
Trip Report: Boston, Massachusetts to Warsaw, Poland and Back
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....
