CLYDE CESSNA – PIONEER AVIATOR
Aviation owes much to a farm boy whose name became synonymous with monoplanes and played a major role in making Wichita the “Air Capital of the World.” […]
Month: April 2007
Stealth aircraft
A stealth aircraft is an aircraft which has been designed to absorb and deflect radar by using stealth technology, making them harder to detect than conventional aircraft. […]
Hawker Beechcraft Corporation Celebrates Beechcraft 75th Anniversary
Hawker Beechcraft Corporation celebrated the 75th anniversary of Beechcraft. Walter and Olive Ann Beech formed Beech Aircraft Corporation April 19, 1932. […]
Amelia Earhart and the 1937 World Flight
In July 1936, Amelia Earhart took delivery of a Lockheed 10E Electra financed by Purdue and started planning a round-the-world flight. […]
Lockheed’s Early Years, 1912-1940
The Lockheed Company, one of the giants in the modern aerospace industry, began in 1912 when the Loughead brothers, Allan and Malcolm, formed the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company in San Francisco. […]
Myths, urban legends and unsupported claims
The unresolved circumstances of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance, along with her fame, has attracted a great body of other claims relating to her last flight. […]
DWANE L. WALLACE — KANSAS VISIONARY
Kansas has had its share of famous aviation personalities–Walter Beech, Clyde Cessna, Lloyd Stearman and Dwane L. Wallace, to name just a few. […]
Blackstar (spaceplane)
Blackstar, is the reported codename of a secret United States orbital spaceplane system. The possible existence of the Blackstar program was reported in March 2006 by Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine. […]
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2007 to Host U.S. Air Force 60th Anniversary Commemoration
For more than a half-century, some of aviation’s most amazing innovations and top developments have come from two places: the U.S. Air Force and the annual EAA AirVenture fly-in convention. […]