Getting Ready to Race at Reno
The Sunday before the races is a quiet time. The pit areas are set up and in some cases airplanes have been on the field for over a week. No real restrictions yet, no need for tickets, pit passes...
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Willow Run Bomber Plant Needs Your Help
There is an effort at the Yankee Air Museum to save part of the Willow Run Bomber Plant. Their currently trying to raise funds to save a portion of the old Ford plant that produced B-24 bombers during World...
The Jetman: From EAA Oshkosh to the Reno Air Races
Brave? The Right Stuff? That doesn’t even start to cover it somedays. Yves Rossy is an amazing pilot, if you want to call him that. He clearly breaks into my list of the greatest pilots in the world; ranking...
Dusty from “Planes” At EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013
Coming to the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh is a great experience. Sometimes you even get to sort out things you see on the internet that make you wonder if they exist or not. Take Dusty for instance.Dusty is the star...
Twas The Night Before Oshkosh…..
It’s Sunday evening, we just got to Oshkosh for the 2013 EAA Convention. AirVenture is ready to start in the morning. People have been here for months setting up the show. Campers have been coming in for weeks. Airplanes...
Half a Lifetime Ago at Oshkosh 1986….
How did I get to writing this? I was scanning all these P-51s. I started to write the history and “where they are now” on each of them. I saw the family pictures and figured and decided that maybe...
Jane and Charlie
Another sad day in the 2013 airshow season happened on June 22nd in Dayton. Jane Wicker was sitting on the “top” of the left bottom wing of her Stearman while Charlie Schwenker made a low inverted pass. Instead of...
Splash In 2013
For the last 6 years, as a part of Sun n Fun, Kermit Weeks has hosted an event as unique as his Fantasy of Flight attraction. You see when Kermit was looking for a place for Fantasy of Flights,...
Aaron Tippin at Sun n Fun
Sun n Fun is a great air show. I’m spending the day wandering the grounds, taking pictures and talking. When I go to a show, I rarely know what I’m going to write about, I get there and start...
Thunderbirds and Blue Angels: 2013 the Stealth Season
For all the people in Congress in Washington DC…. THANKS…. You are screwing up an American tradition. If any of you read this, please drop me a note. I’d love to chat. Now that I got that out of...
Air New Zealand Unveils “Hobbit” Plane
Air New Zealand – the airline of Middle Earth – has unveiled a Boeing 777-300ER “Hobbit Plane” which will perform standard revenue service while doubling as a flying billboard for the new movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. The...
Apple Valley Airshow 2012
The Morning Line Up The Apple Valley airshow calls KAPV in the high desert of Southern California home. A small airport near Victorville falls under the jurisdiction of the San Bernardino County Department of Airports, same as Chino airport. ...
