Category: Aviation History

Airshow / Aviation History / Centennial celebration / demo teams / Europe / Special Aviation Events / Special Color Schemes

October 14, 2018

The Centennial of Poland’s Air Force Celebrated

The Second Republic of Poland was founded in 1918, after the end of the First World War. Except for the few years’ interruption during the Second World War, the Republic of Poland has since stood sovereign, though with different...

Airshow / Aviation History / EAA / Trainers / U.S. Air Force / U.S. Army / U.S. Marines / U.S. Navy / warbirds / World War II

October 5, 2018

OSH Warbirds in Review Part #1 80 Years Young, North American’s Texan

All photos by Scott Jankowski – mainly from the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2018 event, with additional file photos – Ed. On September 18th 1938 the first of an eventual 15,495 North American Aviation Texans took to the sky. The...

Airshow / Aviation History / Civil aviation / EAA

September 20, 2018

Vintage AirVenture Adventure 2018

This article was first run in our sister digital aviation magazine CivilAviationWorld.com The 2018 EAA AirVenture Oshkosh attracted hundreds of “old” airplanes; many gravitated towards the EAA’s Vintage Aircraft Association, located just south of the Boeing Plaza on the...

Airshow / Aviation History / bombers / Civil aviation / fighters / museums / warbirds

September 9, 2018

Geneseo Airshow 2018, The Greatest Show on Turf

I am proud to bring you my other hometown area airshow from Western New York. The proper name of it is the National Warplane Museum Airshow, the Greatest Show on Turf. I call her Genny. I first attended this...

Airshow / Aviation History / Civil aviation / demo teams / EAA / Fly-In / Formation Flying / friends / General Aviation / NASA / oshkosh / Special Aviation Events / warbirds / Yearly Review

August 28, 2018

First Look at What I Saw at the EAA’s 2018 AirVenture in Oshkosh

I got to spend the better part of three and a half days at the EAA’s 2018 AirVenture Oshkosh aviation extravaganza, and even though there were plenty of “shiny things” to chase after with my camera, I did take...

Aviation History

August 17, 2018

Captain Emilio Carranza Rodriguez – The Mexican Lindy

Ninety years have passed since the aviation pioneer known as the ‘Mexican Lindy’, Captain Emilio Carranza Rodriguez and his aircraft “The Mexico-Excelsior’ were lost in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. His aircraft was a copy of Charles Lindbergh’s Ryan...