Flight Journal Podcast – Episode 20Turbine Powered Great Lakes In a really odd juxtaposition of old and new technologies Budd takes us along as he flies a Great Lakes biplane, a 1929, 90 hp design, thatís been fitted with a 420 hp turbo-prop. Episode 20 – Turbine Powered Great LakesPC users – Right click the link [...]

Rare vintage aircraft owned by philanthropist Paul G. Allen on display in Everett, Wash. The collection represents technological innovations during World War II SEATTLE, Wash. ó June 6, 2008 ó The Flying Heritage Collection, one of the worldís great collections of rare World War II-era fighter planes from five major countries of the war, announced [...]

BF-01 departs Fort Worth, Texas, at 10:17 a.m. to begin its 44-minute first flight, which ended at 11:01 am CDT. (Photograph courtesy of Lockheed Martin Corporation.)

Photo by Xavier MÈalPhoto by Jim Koepnick/EAA.Photo courtesy of Jim Busha. Flight Journal Podcast – Episode 19Storch As a follow-up to the Cub versus the Storch article in Augustís issue of Flight Journal, Budd gives us a whimsical account of flying the whimsical Fiesler-Storch, surely the slowest flying aircraft of WWII. Episode 19 – StorchPC [...]

Having flown 100 combat missions during the brutally cold winter of 1950-51 in Korea on the same type of sorties as those described—I can readily understand the situation. The main difference is that we had to land under marginal weather conditions on wet/icy PSP runways but we faced the same flak and 50 cal guns on the [...]

My first assignment out of flying school was to Castle Air Force Base, with the 330th Bomb Squadron of the 93rd Bomb Group. There in January, 1953 I was introduced to the Boeing B-50D Superfortress.    The introduction was a little rough, for the day I arrived, a B-50D from  another squadron had gone in, [...]

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