Republic P-47 Scrapbook
Story and photos by Ken Kula Republic Aviation built over 15,000 examples of the P-47 Thunderbolt, in several versions. The first flight of a prototype aircraft was on May 6, 1941, or seven months prior to the Pearl Harbor...
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OLD BOEINGS FROM THE LAST CENTURY
Photos and story by Ken Kula Here is a collection of Boeing transports built during the 1960s through the 1980s. We’ll focus on a pair of early short to medium ranged airliners, the B-727 tri-jet and twin B-737. Of...
Fifteen More Fantastic Warbirds
by Ken Kula · Published September 24, 2022 MiG-17F at a Nellis AFB air show. Bell P-39 Aircobra at an Eglin AFB air show. Curtiss P-40 Warhawk during an evening air show at Brunswick,...
LAX on February 9, 2011
Photos by Ken Kula It was a dozen years ago, and the Los Angeles International Airport was a hopping place. A gateway top the the Pacific region and Asia, nonstop European flights were beginning to trickle in with the...
USAF Trainers In My Lifetime…
I’m 63 years old, and have been nuts about airplanes since I was a child. I’ve chased airplanes in picture books, at air shows, and later in life, as a photographer and writer trying to record aviation history. That’s...
Fifteen Fantastic Warbirds from Scott Jankowski
by Scott Jankowski · Published September 3, 2022 Thunder over Michigan 2019 featured a gathering of Corsairs, pictured here are 11 such examples doing a mass engine runup. Here are fifteen fantastic warbird photos from Scott Jankowski. From time...
NAS Jacksonville Airshow 2022
Story and photos by Shawn Byers Naval Air Station Jacksonville held their bi-annual airshow on 22 and 23 October. Although Jacksonville, Florida enjoys a show annually, the odd years are hosted along Jacksonville Beach. This was the first show...
The 2022 Reno Air Races Report
by Jeff Serpa · Published December 3, 2022 Stead Airport, Reno, NV Story and Photos by Jeff Serpa The Reno Air Races. If you know, you know. If you don’t, you should. The Reno Air Races have been taking...
POLARIS DAWN
Photos and Story by Scott Jankowski EAA AirVenture always manages to bring together many unique and different aircraft attractions each and every year, one could call them “Only in Oshkosh moment.” One such attraction was during the Friday afternoon...
OCEANA AIR SHOW 2022
Story by Bill Sarama, photos by Howard German, Bob Finch and Bill Sarama Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, VA, had their big Air Show on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 16, 17 and 18, 2022, and it...
Base Visit: NAS Lemoore 2022
Photos and story by Peter Boschert NAS Lemoore is the largest US Navy base with about 12000 hectares. It was opened in 1961 and is now a Master Base of the US Navy. In 1998, NAS Lemoore was selected...
CELEBRATING 75 YEARS OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE, AIRVENTURE STYLE.
Photos and story by Scott Jankowski Originally created on August 1st, 1907, and once part of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, was formally established as a separate branch of the U.S. Armed Forces on September 18th 1947. The U.S....
