Delta Airlines L-1011 Tristar in front of a Northwest Airlines DC-10 at Boston Massachusetts. Photos and story by Ken Kula The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and the Lockheed L-1011 Tristar prototypes both took their first flights in 1970. Both were heavy … Continue reading DC-10 and L-1011 Scrapbook
Here’s a collection of older Boeing jetliners… B-727-100/200s and B-737-100/200s. These airframes most likely don’t exist anymore, victims of the scrappers’ cranes, bulldozers and cutting torches. Most of the airlines don’t exist either, or at least the airlines’ color schemes … Continue reading Old Boeings Volume 1
Here’s a quick look – back almost a dozen years ago – at airliner traffic at KLAX, Los Angeles International Airport in California. Twelve years doesn’t seem like a long time ago, but as far as airline operatins go, a … Continue reading Los Angeles – KLAX Airport Visit on February 9, 2011
Here are a dozen scans from Bob Finch’s slide collection… these date back to the late 1950s or early 1960s. Some are from Teterboro NJ, two others from Idlewild, NY. Continue reading Old Photos From Bob Finch
Los Angeles International Airport (KLAX, or just “LAX” to many), sits on California’s Pacific coastline, straddling the communities of El Segundo and Westchester. Four long (almost) parallel runways are divided in half by multiple terminals. The airport attracts scheduled air … Continue reading KLAX Spotting Trip July, 2022
Here’s the official media release with facts and figures of the Experimental Aircraft Association’s (EAA) AirVenture Oshkosh 2022. The massive celebration of aviation is touted as “Unlike Anything Else”, and for a week in mid-summer in Wisconsin, a huge gathering of aviation’s family and friends enjoyed almost perfect weather and unmatched sights and sounds. At the end of 2021, the organization had over 250,000 members “nearly 1000 chapters”. Words are from the EAA, photos by Ken Kula. Comment from EAA CEO and Chairman Jack Pelton: “We introduced a tagline of ‘Unlike Anything Else’ for this year’s AirVenture event and 2022’s … Continue reading EAA AIRVENTURE OSHKOSH 2022 – FACTS AND FIGURES FOR A RECORD-SETTING YEAR
Scott Jankowski has “chased” airliners with his cameras for many years. As of May, 2022 over 15,000 Boeing 737 airframes have been built, and Scott has quite a group of photos which contain the Boeing twin jets. Here is the first of three galleries of B-737 airliners from his collections, beginning with some older versions – but still from this century. Stay tuned for two more collections in the next two months too! Continue reading Scott Jankowski’s Boeing 737 Galleries, Part 1
Some airliner photos from the 1980s and 1990s None of these aircraft are operating in the same livery or with the same company in 2022… Continue reading LAX Sometime Last Century…
Lockheed’s Graceful Constellation The Constellation was a pre-World War II airliner design begun by Lockheed Corporation in 1937. In 1939, Transcontinental and Western Airlines (later known as just TWA) showed interest in a long ranged transport with a modest amount of seating. A few aviation luminaries were involved with the early work… Howard Hughes was a major TWA stockholder and Kelly Johnson was one of the aircraft’s designers. The L-049 was the initial version. As World War II interrupted the airliner’s development, it also took over many orders for civilian aircraft that were adapted to military service. The L-049 design … Continue reading Lockheed’s Graceful Constellation