Doc’s Friends: Wichita Aero Club Gala
Doc’s Friends is a 501 c3 non-profit board managing the 16-year restoration of the Boeing B-29 Super Fortress known as ‘Doc.’
Articles by Carl Chance
Introduction Video to the CAF Air Power Museum
This is an introduction to the CAF Air Power Museum, located at Midland Army Airfield. This museum is quite extensive and is enlightening to all who visit. It also offers an educational overview of World […]
[EXTREMELY RARE] Beechcraft Starship landing at Harbor Springs…
The Beechcraft Starship is a twin-turboprop six-to-eight-passenger pressurized business aircraft produced by Beech Aircraft Corporation (now Beechcraft). Enjoy this view of this extremely rare aircraft, the Beechcraft Starship. By tigersfanatic98.
First Solo Flight-G1000 C172
May 2015 Andrew Eaves successfully became an aviator and flew a plane solo!! Flight trained in the Air Capital of the World, Wichita, Ks. at Textron flying Club located at Beech Field (KBEC). Solo flight […]
P-26A Pea Shooter in flight at Planes of Fame, worlds only flying P-26A
The worlds only remaining flying Boeing P-26A Pea Shooter returns to the skies over Southern California for the Planes of Fame monthly flying history event for January, 2012. The very rare flight of this unique […]
Watch new Air Force pilot take his WWII grandpa flying
92-year old WWII pilot, Bob Jorgenson, pinned some very special wings on his grandson when he graduated from Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas. They were his! Watch this duo go back up into the […]
The Classic Cessna 195 (FREEview 213)
The Aviators is “For Everyone Who Has Ever Gazed Skywards.” The Aviators, the smash hit that airs across the US on PBS, In Canada on Travel & Escape, and on Discovery Channel Internationally.
Glen Dell Flying the Staggerwing and Waco
Classic Aviation flights. Glen flying the rare and historical Beechcraft Staggerwing and the Waco aircraft. Both aircraft were part of the heritage of Wichita, the Air Capital of the World.
Travel Air Type R Mystery Ship
The Type R “Mystery Ships” were a series of wire-braced, low-wing racing airplanes built by the Travel Air Company in the late 1920s and early 1930s in Wichita, Kansas. They were so called, because the […]
Scorpion Jet Performs First Weapons Trials
Scorpion Jet performs first weapons trials. Textron Arland conducted the first air-to-surface weapons trials of its Scorpion Jet during a series of live-firings at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The Scorpion is […]