This DC-3, operated by Provincetown-Boston Airlines (PBA) hit 91,400 hours of flying time in 1993. The “Douglas Commercial” DC-3 is a large, twin engine commercial transport that the Douglas Aircraft Company produced from roughly 1936 to 1943. Military variants include … Continue reading Douglas DC-3/Super DC-3/C-47, etc. Scrapbook
De Havilland Canada designed a niche airliner in the 1970s, which became known as the ” Dash 7″. The DHC-7 was a four-engined turboprop airliner with seating for approximately 50 passengers, give or take a couple depending upon the variant. Instead of relying on speed, the Dash 7 relied on excellent STOL capabilities and less noise (when compared to its competitors like the Fokker 27, Hawker Siddeley 748 and Convair 580/600)to make a business case. Excellent performance at high-altitude airports was another selling point. The first flight of the Dash 7 prototype took place on March 27, 1975. Development went … Continue reading The DHC-7 Dash Seven Story
Story and photos by Shawn Byers, first published in CivilAviationWorld.com As you travel on Interstate 10 in Arizona, approximately 25 miles north of Tucson, an Aviation Oasis catches your eye. Large aircraft tails can be seen in the distance rising … Continue reading A Day Trip to Pinal Airpark
Story and photos by Ken Kula, except the Belfast transport photos by John Freedman Short Brothers plc (referred to as “Shorts” here) is based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The aircraft manufacturer was founded before World War I, and has made … Continue reading A Brief Look at Short Brothers Turboprop Transports
Story and photos by Steve Lewis, first published in Photorecon.net in 2020 Wings over Camarillo continued to step it up again this year as they introduced pyrotechnics to this year’s event. The show was held under beautiful skies and amazing … Continue reading 2019’s Wings Over Camarillo Looking Back
Photos by Ken Kula Amphibious aircraft are quite versitile… they can operate from either land or sea. This scrapbook shows a wide variety of amphibians… those with built-in landing gear in their structure. Many other aircraft types have been fitted … Continue reading AMPHIBIOUS AIRCRAFT SCRAPBOOK
I’ll soon turn 64 years old and have seen quite a few military aircraft over the years. I remember visiting cousins in Massachusetts, near the (former) NAS South Weymouth base. There was a steady stream of airplanes – both jets … Continue reading U.S. Navy Trainers Used During My Lifetime
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
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
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…