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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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 Scott Jankowski This past October I spent a beautiful Sunday Fall afternoon spotting at the primary observation area at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport. This viewing area is located at the end of Cargo...
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...
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