Marking 61 Years of Supersonic Curiosity
Sixty-one years after a sonic boom first rolled across the roof of the high desert in southern California, there are still things yet to be discovered about supersonic flight. […]
Turning Point
It’s hard to think of the Bonanza as anything but immortal. After all, it’s a design that has endured for almost six decades. […]
Boeing’s Metal Monoplanes of the 1930s
By the end of the 1920s, biplanes were becoming obsolete and manufacturers turned to building all-metal monoplanes. Boeing Aircraft led this technological revolution with welded steel tubing for fuselage structure. This soon became standard in the industry until it was replaced by monocoque sheet metal structures in the mid-1930s. […]
Dogfights – Tuskegee Airmen
This outstanding series of 5 videos features actual recreation of aerial battles, interlaced with interviews with some of the Tuskegee pilots themselves. The remaining videos will be added weekly. […]
Aviation History Facts: January
Historical aviation facts from the Month of January […]
Kansas World War II Army Airfields
During World War II, Kansas was a major United States Army Air Force (USAAF) training center for pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers. Kansas was a favored because it has excellent, year-round flying conditions. The sparsely populated land made ideal locations for gunnery, bombing, and training ranges. […]
Blanche Noyes
Blanche Noyes (June 23, 1900 – October 1981) was an American pioneering female aviator who was among the first ten women to receive a pilot’s license. […]
The Earliest Overseas Aviation Companies: England, France, Germany, and Russia
The American and European aviation industries began to develop within a few years of each other, but Europe took the first formal steps to establish dedicated aircraft companies in the early decades of the 20th century. During this time, there was a shift from aircraft designers, builders, and pilots all being the same people to having entrepreneurs who ran the business and built the planes and others who flew them. […]
Boeing-Stearman Model 75
The Stearman (Boeing) Model 75 is a biplane, of which at least 9,783 were built in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s as a military trainer aircraft. Stearman became a subsidiary of Boeing in 1934. Widely known as the Stearman, Boeing Stearman or Kaydet, it served as a Primary trainer for the USAAF, as a basic trainer for the USN (as the NS1 & N2S), and with the RCAF as the Kaydet throughout World War II. […]