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We Mourned as a Nation: Space Shuttle Challenger

We Mourned as a Nation: Space Shuttle Challenger

On January 28, 1986, the NASA shuttle orbiter mission STS-51-L and the tenth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-99) broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members. The crew consisted of five NASA astronauts and two payload specialists. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of Cape […]
Douglas A-1 Skyraider

Douglas A-1 Skyraider

Nicknamed “Spad”, after the French World War I fighter, the Douglas A-1 Skyraider was a single-seat U.S. attack aircraft with a service career that spanned between the late 1940s and the early 80s. Though the Skyraider was produced too late to take part in World War 2, it became the backbone of United States Navy […]
Video: Five Thirty Five Trailer

Video: Five Thirty Five Trailer

Next to a screaming engine, inside a cockpit that reaches 140-degrees Fahrenheit, Steve Hinton is on a mission to reach the fastest speed ever accomplished in a propeller-driven, piston-engine aircraft. In our latest film, “Five Thirty Five,” join Steve and his aviation-obsessed family on their journey to break a world record—again. The full film premiers […]
Can Big Data Save Old Warplanes?

Can Big Data Save Old Warplanes?

It’s been a tough year or so for Air Force maintainers. High-profile aircraft failures plagued the service recently, including emergency landings of C-5 cargo aircraft, the grounding of the B-1 bomber fleet, and the loss of a C-130 propeller in mid-flight. The immediate causes of these accidents vary, the but root cause is the same: age. The average age […]
“Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby” B-17 Flying Fortress

“Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby” B-17 Flying Fortress

“Shoo Shoo Baby” is a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress that was preserved and on public display. A B-17G-35-BO, (SN 42-32076), it was named by her crew for a song of the same name sung by The Andrews Sisters, a favorite of crew chief T/Sgt. Hank Cordes. Photographs of the bomber indicate that a third “Shoo” […]
The Army’s Glider Waco CG-4A

The Army’s Glider Waco CG-4A

The Waco CG-4A was the most widely used American troop/cargo military glider of World War II. It was designated the CG-4A by the United States Army Air Forces, and named Hadrian (after the Roman emperor) in British military service. Designed by the Waco Aircraft Company, flight testing began in May 1942, and eventually more than […]
January 11: On this Day in Aviation History

January 11: On this Day in Aviation History

1988 – The death of Gregory “Pappy” Boyington. Born on December 4, 1912 in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Boyington began his military flying career as an aviation cadet in the US Marine Corps Reserve before resigning his commission to fly with the American Volunteer Group , better known as the Flying Tigers, fighting for Nationalist China against […]
January 10 On this Day in Aviation History

January 10 On this Day in Aviation History

1964 – A Boeing B-52H Stratofortess has its vertical stabilizer sheared off by turbulence but lands safely. The B-52H on loan from the US Air Force and flying with a 4-man civilian crew, was on a test mission to record sensor data for high speed, low altitude flight. Over New Mexico’s Sangre de Christo mountains, […]
The Marvelous Gooney Bird: Douglas DC-3/C-47

The Marvelous Gooney Bird: Douglas DC-3/C-47

It could be argued that modern air transportation began in 1931 with the tragic death of Knute Rockne, the much-loved Notre Dame football coach. A national figure of legendary status, his death in a Fokker Tri-motor airliner touched off a national furor to upgrade airline transportation. The airlines responded immediately with frantic demands to the […]
Own your own B-24 Liberator — “Giant Scale RC Witchcraft”

Own your own B-24 Liberator — “Giant Scale RC Witchcraft”

The B-24 Liberator Heavy Bomber, named “Witchcraft” is part of the Collings Foundation collection of beautifully restored WW II aircraft, and is the only flying example of the type. It is the last Liberator and the Collings Foundation uses it as an education platform to keep the memories of those lost in WW II alive. […]
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