Forty Two Plus Years With The Boeing Company
There is nothing romantic about my getting a job at The Boeing Co. I simply needed a job and they were hiring. I hired in on 15 April 1957 and retired on 1 August 1999. […]
Articles by Carl Chance
List of surviving B-29 Superfortresses
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was a four-engine heavy bomber propeller aircraft flown by the United States Army Air Forces in World War II and other military organizations afterwards. The name “Superfortress” was derived from its well-known predecessor, the B-17 Flying Fortress. […]
F-35 Lightning II Flight Tests
Chief Test Pilot Recounts Early Flights […]
MQ-9 REAPER UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE
The MQ-9 Reaper is a medium-to-high altitude, long endurance remotely piloted aircraft system. The MQ-9’s primary mission is as a persistent hunter-killer against emerging targets in support of joint force commander objectives. […]
General Aviation – An Overview
Perhaps the best way to define general aviation is to begin by listing what it is not. General aviation is not military aviation and it is not scheduled commercial aviation. To a great extent, all other uses of aviation in the United States fall into the category of general aviation. […]
A Midnight Meeting at Lake Charles
This is a true story about Billy Gene Nix, the worlds wisest old crow and the man who knew more about the B-52 than any man alive. […]
Charles Lindbergh – Aviation Pioneer Lesson Plan
The subject of this Aviation Pioneer lesson plan is Charles Lindbergh. […]
Air Capital Aviation Report, July 15, 2007
Aviation and aerospace news and items of interest from Wichita, the Air Capital of the World. […]
Blue Angels
The United States Navy’s Blue Angels (or Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron), formed in 1946, is the world’s first officially sanctioned military aerial demonstration team. […]
William Powell Lear, Sr. – Aviation Pioneer Lesson Plan
Lesson plan on William Powell Lear Sr., founder of Learjet. […]