Old Gems from Bob Finch
Aeronca 7AC floatplane Bob Finch has some very old slides. He has reproduced a dozen images here as scans from slides in the late 1950s, from Teterboro, NJ and Idlewild Airport, NY. WACO RNF, note the Meteor Air Transport...
Category: General Aviation
EAA AIRVENTURE OSHKOSH 2022 – FACTS AND FIGURES FOR A RECORD-SETTING YEAR
Here’s the official media release with facts and figures of the Experimental Aircraft Association’s (EAA) AirVenture Oshkosh 2022. The massive celebration of aviation is touted as “Unlike Anything Else”, and for a week in mid-summer in Wisconsin, a huge...
Australian International Air Show 2001
Miles M3A Falcon Major I was very fortunate to be able to attend the 2001 Australian International Air Show… some twenty years ago. It was as much a trade show as it was an air show, and what you...
Aircraft Designs That Are More than 50 Years Old, Part 2
Lockheed L-188 Electra Photos by Ken Kula Every one of these aircraft types were designed over half a century ago, but many are still found flying today. How many do you recognize? DeHavilland DH-114 Heron Fokker 27 Lockheed Constellation...
Yellow Airplanes – Piston Powered
There’s a common link top all of these aircraft. All have a noticeable amount of yellow in their livery. Additionally, all of these aircraft are powered by piston engines. From time to time we’ll show collections of colors on...
The Human(-itarian) Side of 2021’s AirVenture
The EAA’s AirVenture Oshkosh 2021 presented the theme of humanitarian-based aviation in a big way. There were a surprising number of aircraft and organizations present at the July event. The aircraft types ranged from heavy jet transports to a...
A Mid-Year Look at How 2021 is Shaping up
Business and General Aviation aircraft flight numbers rebounded faster than airline flights since the Covid-19 restrictions began Mid-Term Report For the Year 2021 By your Assignment and Content Editor We, the combined groups of writers, reporters and photographers...
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...
An Incomplete Review of the Train Wreck That Was 2020
The tumultuous year of 2020 has ended, leaving many dreams shattered, lives changed forever, and the aviation world a very different place than it was just one year ago. The so-called global pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus has...
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....
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...
Snowbirds PAO Captain Jennifer Casey Perishes in Operation Inspiration Accident
Snowbirds CT-114 cockpit. On Sunday morning May 17, 2020, shortly before noontime in Kamloops, British Columbia, a pair of RCAF CT-114 Tutors, part of the Snowbirds team, departed the airport carrying the advance coordination team for their next Operation...
