Ready for Take-Off
This week marks my 500th post on my blog. Wow! if you had told me when I started that I would have made it [...]
The Jennings Stearman Fly-In
For aviation enthusiasts, it’s always a treat to see a biplane fly over. But when you are driving down the interstate and see not one, not two, [...]
The Bamboo Bomber
Cessna built the first examples of the “Bamboo Bomber” Cessna UC78 (T-50) Bobcat before WWII as a business-feeder airline aircraft. During the war, many were [...]
Oh Baby!
My fondness of airplanes is no secret. Like a woman window-shops for shoes she can’t afford, I shop over airplanes I’ll likely never fly [...]
Bede BD-5B
The BD-5 is a small, single-seat, homebuilt “kit” aircraft by the now-defunct Bede Aircraft Corporation in the early 1970s. It has a small, streamlined fuselage holding its semi-reclined pilot under [...]
Inside Marine One
This restored Sikorsky VH-3A Sea King was used to ferry Presidents Nixon and Ford before it was retired.
NASA’s T-38
The Northrop T-38 was used by the Air Force as a two-seat, supersonic trainer and was used by NASA’s research pilots for proficiency and [...]
The Ginn DSA-1 Interior
Little airplanes have little interiors. This means you only have the basics for instruments and extra features. This little Ginn DSA-1 biplane fits everything nicely, including [...]
Grumman S2F-1 Tracker
The Grumman S-2 Tracker was the first purpose-built, single airframe anti-submarine warfare aircraft to enter service with the US Navy. The Tracker was of [...]
Speedy Birds
Liking both autos and airplanes, it’s fun to go to an event that offers both. The cars drive in while the planes fly in [...]