The history of the 22d pre-dates America’s entry into World War II. The group was constituted as the 22d Bombardment Group (Medium) on 22 December 1939 and activated on 1 February 1940, at Mitchel Field, New York. […]
Mary Chance VanScyoc was the first female civilian air traffic controller in the United States, according to Andrew Pitas. […]
The Final Salute, the debut novel by Kathleen Rodgers, is about the aftermath of plane crashes, the tight bond between military pilots, and how crewmembers and military families cope after terrible tragedies. […]
Relations between the Russian Federation and the United States since 1991 began after the demise of the Soviet Union. […]
Universally recognized as the First Lady of Aviation, Olive Ann Beech, has the distinguished honor to be named the first Kansan inducted into the Kansas Aviation Hall of Fame. […]
A listing of important aviation facts, events and happenings from October. […]
Sputnik (translated as “satellite” or “traveling companion of the Earth”), trailing four metal antennas, passed through the skies over the launch site confirming that a human-made moon was now orbiting the Earth. The “Space Age” had begun. […]
Pilot-Performer Bonnie Johnson Operations Manager for Merkel Airplane Company, takes her audience back to 1958, as she reenacts the time when Thaden had just received her first ride in a jet aircraft with her son Bill. […]
The Beechcraft Starship is a futuristic-looking aircraft designed by Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites and produced by the Beech Aircraft Corporation. […]
The Tuskegee Airmen is a 1995 HBO television movie based on the exploits of an actual groundbreaking unit, the first African American combat pilots in the United States Army Air Force, that fought in World War II. […]
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