Latest Flight’s in the AT-6 and T-6
Latest Flight’s in the AT-6 and T-6 By Dr. Lionel D. Alford,Jr. Hawker Beechcraft Lead Test Pilot 3 to 7 Feb 2014 I flew the T-6C […]
Aviation Features
Inside Boeing Flight Test & The Doomsday Airplane
By Neil Chance I hired on with The Boeing Co. as an Engineering Draftsman in 1957. By the sixties times had changed. Electronics was the big and up-and-coming thing, so I decided it was time […]
Watching Wichita become ‘Air Capital of the World’
Watching Wichita become ‘Air Capital of the World’ By Tom Whitney November, 2013 In the 1930s Wichita was known as the Air Capital of the World. During the 1940s war era Wichita became the Air […]
Wichita, The Air Capital!
It is timely to revisit and reaffirm Wichita’s Unique position among the aviation industry, where nowhere else you will find the concentration of top-name general aviation aircraft manufacturers co-located within such a concentrated geographic boundary. […]
KC-46A TANKER
The KC-46A is intended to replace the U.S. Air Force’s aging fleet of KC-135 Stratotankers which has been the primary refueling aircraft for more than 50 years. […]
MY VETERAN’S DAY TRIBUTE
The many times I was called to travel in Europe in the service of the United States Air Force, I visited numerous monuments encircled by the graves of American war dead. […]
Boeing Employees Featured in New Veterans Day Advertising
As part of its ongoing efforts to honor and support military personnel and veterans, Boeing will launch television advertising this weekend that recognizes their contributions through the stories of 19 employees. […]
SR-71 Fun Facts
By Buz Carpenter, Smithsonian Udvar Center Docent & former SR-71 Instructor Pilot. […]
Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance: The 184th Intelligence Wing – Many Missions, One Team
The United States Air Force’s 184th Intelligence Wing, Kansas Air National Guard, is located at McConnell AFB, Wichita, Kansas in the heart of the Air Capital of the World. […]
Boeing Defense, Space & Security
Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) formerly known as Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) is a unit of The Boeing Company responsible for defense and aerospace products and services. […]