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Warbug: The Warbird Pilot’s First Step Pilot Report on the Aeronca L-16
Aspiring warbird pilot Austin Hancock shares his journey from student pilot to flying the Aeronca…
Today In Aviation History: First Flight of the Consolidated XPY-1
On January 10, 1929, the Consolidated XPY-1 maritime flying boat made its first flight, marking…
A VETERAN’S STORY: The Ultimate Flyboy
By Pete Mecca Arranging an interview quickly turns into something even more exciting when the…
Bessie Coleman Made History 100 Years Ago Today
From the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution's newsletter One hundred years…
LIFT Airborne Progresses in Delivering the Next Generation of Fixed Wing Helmets
Advertorial In 2020 the United States Air Force awarded LIFT Airborne Technologies an OTA Agreement…
Lone Star Heritage
By Stephen Chapis At first glance one might mistake it for an F-16A of the…
Masters of the Air – Production Beginning to Unfold
by Richard Mallory Allnutt (Editor) As we reported recently, the aviation-themed TV miniseries, Masters of the…
Warbird Profile: KELLY’S SHINING STAR
Text by Stephen Chapis Photo Luigino Caliaro Though the Lockheed T-33 is viewed as a…
Freshwater Mallard
Advertorial* By Stephen Chapis In 1944, having built more than 30,000 military aircraft and the…
X-Plane Files: THE LIFE OF X-1 ZERO SIX THREE
A little while back, we began a series of articles looking at the air-test work…
Frecce Tricolori Celebrate 60th Anniversary With Special Markings
While we don't often cover modern military aviation, we thought that the 60th anniversary of…
Getting Into Warbirds
by Sam Worthington-Leese Getting into warbirds might seem like an impossible dream, akin to being…
Gary Velasco’s Wingnut & Rockhead Show
The artwork of famed aviation artist Gary Velasco currently graces the noses of some of…
Tomcat Tales – Dave “Bio” Baranek on Tomcats and TOPGUN
It's been a decade and a half since the mighty Grumman F-14 Tomcat retired from…
Freedom 7 – 60th Anniversary of Alan Shepard’s Historic First Spaceflight
Sixty years ago, at precisely 9:34am EST, Alan B. Shepard Jr. became the first American,…
F-51s vs UFOs
by Stephen Chapis In the early months of modern Ufology, a pair of Air National…
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