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Savannah’s Flying Fortress
Volunteers pose with 'City of Savannah' as it nears completion. Gulf Stream Aerospace They called it the Mighty Eighth—the Eighth Air Force, the most effective bomber force of World War II. Though...
View ArticleTweets Heard Round the World
Amelia Rose Earhart arrives at Oakland after her 24,300-mile journey. AP Photo/Oakland Tribune During Amelia Earhart’s ill-fated 1937 round-the-world attempt, the famed Golden Age flier dubbed “Lady...
View ArticleWings Remembered
A small Tennessee aviation museum holds a great collection of mostly World War II artifacts.
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Google Takes Over Moffett Field
With a 200-foot-high ceiling and a floor surface covering eight acres, Hangar One at Moffett Field in Mountain View, Calif., is an appropriate place from which to launch some very big ideas. That seems...
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Potez Replica’s First Flight
The Potez is brand-new, built from scratch using long-lost French blueprints Perhaps because the low-hanging fruit has all been plucked—the P-51s, Corsairs, B-25s and various Grummans already restored...
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Historic Heinkel Recovered
Lifted mostly intact from a Norwegian fjord, this Heinkel He-115B may represent the most convenient recovery of a warbird in history. (Flyhistorisk Museum Sola) “The museum has yet to decide whether...
View ArticleAviation Heritage Invitational Held at Reno
The 2011 National Aviation Heritage Invitational was held at the 48th annual Reno Air Races in September.
View ArticleWorld War II Ace Flies Again
The 95-year-old ace James B. Morehead flew a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk this August at Sonoma Valley Airport in California.
View ArticleGoing Up?
On March 5, 2011, cluster balloonist Jonathan Trappe re-created the flying house from the Disney/Pixar film Up.
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Fairey Gannet Revival
Two Fairey Gannets are being restored to flying status, and, when complete, will be the only ones aloft.
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Boneyard Art
Artists have transformed old planes at the Davis-Monthan AFB "Boneyard" into colorful works of art.
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Seabee Revival
Mike Araldi's Republic RC-3 amphibian, which he christened "Abeja" ("Bee"), is marked accordingly. Every dog has its day—even a Seabee. A design bought by Republic to help keep its Long Island factory...
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Down-Under Boxkite Replica
Until now, there has been only one flying Bristol Boxkite—the oft-photographed example that is part of the Shuttleworth Collection in England, a fragile chaos of cables and turnbuckles that is flown...
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EAA’s Standard J-1 Returns
The EAA's Standard J-1, decked out in the markings of fictional barnstormer Waldo Pepper, takes to the air again. The square-cut 1916-18 Standard J-1 biplane is notorious for being mistaken as a...
View ArticleOsprey Settles Into New Nest
The Air Force’s oldest Osprey (a CV-22), originally built as a preproduction aircraft for the U.S. Navy, enters retirement.
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Dog Finds a New House
Veterans of HMM-361 pose with the restored Sikorsky UH-34D they presented to the National Museum of the Marine Corps. U.S. Marine Corps The Sikorsky UH-34D was properly named the Seahorse when flown by...
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Battling Beast Debuts
The first airplane to emerge from the new restoration hangar at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center was unveiled to the public on April 1: the Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver
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Drones vs. Poachers
The drones are flown from a mobile command post. The Lindbergh Foundation Poachers are killing so many elephants and rhinos in Africa that biologists predict both species may soon be extinct without...
View Article‘Wichita Fokker’ Takes Flight
Eric Berens' Travel Air 2000 makes its first flight since 1937. The Model 2000's superficial resemblance to the Fokker D.VII earned it a role in Howard Hughes' "Hell's Angels." Image: Jim Weeden The...
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Spanish Stork
Emilio Garcia-Conde's Fieseler Fi-156 "Storch" in Spanish Civil War Nationalist markings. For all its warlike mien and malevolent insignia, the Luftwaffe version of the Fieseler Fi-156 Storch (Stork)...
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