Category: Aviation History

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...