Welcome to This Date in Aviation History, getting of you caught up on milestones, important historical events and…

Founded by Charles Kaman in 1945, the Kaman Corporation quickly established itself as a major manufacturer of…

On this date in 1947, the passage of the National Security Act of 1947 established the United States Air Force as an…

In 1983, the US Navy opened the Advanced Tactical Aircraft competition to develop a replacement for the A-6…

In 1977, the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act was passed in the UK, which called for the merger and…

Welcome to This Date in Aviation History, getting of you caught up on milestones, important historical events and…

NAS Key West, FL, 10 March 1991

Back to the B-36, this time for some “roads not traveled” ideas.

I haven’t been out to Austin-Bergstrom International to take pictures since April of last year, and now that I…

My brother and father and I took a trip to NYC last December, and we all visited the 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero.…

It costs money. No doubt about that. There are planes owned by states, such as California’s Cal-Fire and their S-2's…

Welcome to This Date in Aviation History, getting of you caught up on milestones, important historical events and…

September 11, 2001 – Terrorists hijack four commercial airliners and use them to attack the World Trade Center and…

The Names Of Those Lost

Ellsworth AFB, Rapid City, SD, the early 1950s

The captain of the Lithuanian Klasjet Boeing had 4,300 hours to his credit, while the first officer had “about…

Converting 5 medium sized, single aisle aircraft every Friday and then again before Monday seems outrageous, the 90s…

Unusually for one of my posts, those aren’t real planes. They’re 1/72 scale models, and they’re by the insanely…

Welcome to This Date in Aviation History, getting of you caught up on milestones, important historical events and…