Our Boeing 727 Scrapbook
Boeing’s 727 jetliner prototype first took to the skies in early 1963. More than half a century later, the type is still in use, although not nearly as widespread as it was in the past century. Two main variants...
Category: Civil aviation
Looking Back to my 2001 Australia Trip
I took a trip to Australia to see the 2001 Avalon Air Show, which celebrated the Centenary of Federation of that country. There were many aircraft types that I’d never seen before, and there were a number of British...
EAA’s AirVenture 2021 = EAA AirVenture 2020 (Plus One) And Then Some
P-51 Mustang at a past AirVenture EAA’s AirVenture 2021 = EAA AirVenture 2020 (Plus One) And Then Some The AirVenture 2020 aviation celebration in Oshkosh, Wisconsin was forced to be cancelled over health concerns associated with the Covid...
Remembering the First Airbus A-380 Arrival at KJFK
Airbus’s A-380 super-sized airliner was launched at the end of the year 2000. A little more than four years later, the first flight of a prototype occurred, on April 27, 2005. European and U.S. type certification occurred some twenty...
Antique/Classic/Contemporary Scrapbook #3
1941 Interstate S-1A-65F, one of Kent Pietsch’s air show aircraft. Here’s the last of our three-volume collection of Antique and Classic aircraft. Some of these are former military aircraft, others were built for the civilian market in the first...
Antique/Classic/Contemporary Scrapbook #2
1949 Cessna 195 All of these aircraft pictured below were manufactured between 1943 and 1970. World history during this time frame begins in the middle of World War II, through to the year man first stepped upon the Moon....
The “Mad Dog”, A Tribute to a Workhorse, Part 2
The McDonnell Douglas MD-80 family of airliners has served the world’s airlines for 41 years , but is now rapidly fading from the skies. The two largest operators of the MD-80 series just recently retired the type, those being...
Antique/Classic/Contemporary Scrapbook #1
1943 Beech D17S Staggerwing All of these aircraft were manufactured between 1928 and 1943. World history during this time frame included the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II. What’s interesting to note is that the aviation...
The “Mad Dog”, A salute to the MD-80 family of Jetliners, Part 1
The MD-80 series of aircraft once a workhorse of the world’s airlines is rapidly slipping into aviation history with the recent retirement of the type by Delta Airlines. The MD-80 series has become a victim to more fuel-efficient types...
Random Aviation Photos #4
Lear 24 at Nellis AFB. Here’s our next Random Photo Scrapbook, enjoy! Schweizer/Hughes TH-55 A at Simsbury, CT. Boeing B-737-600 at Las Vegas NV. Boeing B-757-200 at Andrews AFB. Stodacher S300D at Quonset Point, RI. Boeing B-727-200 at Boston....
COVID-19 Airlines and Airliner Casualties, Groundings and Retirements
Air Canada and its subsidiary Rouge will be retiring many of their Boeing B-767-300s due to the airline industry’s downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Call it what you will… the “COVID-19 pandemic” has led most of the world’s...
The Millennial Farnborough International Air Shows
ATR-42-500 soon to be delivered to Cuban airline Aerogaviota, at the 2002 Farnborough trade show. Here are a number of aircraft photos featuring the aircraft from the 2000 and 2002 Farnborough International Air Show. In reality, the shows...
