A significant aviation museum named the Aichi Museum of Flight opened for the first time today at Nagoya Airport within the prefecture of Aichi, Japan. While the new museum celebrates aviation as a whole, it […]
The Palm Springs Air Museum in Palm Springs, California will host a presentation and reception between 6 and 8pm on Friday, December 1st for the opening of their special exhibit WAR TIME DESIGNS – INSIGNIA ART […]
Teenagers will have a unique opportunity to earn scholarship funds while learning about military aviation history through the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force’s Eighth Annual Air Force Heritage and History Writing Competition. This […]
On Dec. 9 the Museum hosts a lecture and book signing with the remarkable Scott Parazynski, the only person to have flown in space and summited Mt. Everest. The astronaut, explorer, physician, inventor and now […]
The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) will host its annual “12 Planes of Christmas” online giving campaign this December. Designed to support the aircraft of the CAF, the world’s largest flying museum. This event highlights the […]
Reevers Warbirds has done it again; they have successfully rescued a North American B-25 Mitchell from an uncertain fate, where many had previously tried and failed. This time, after significant effort, they have recovered the […]
The Convair B-36 “Peacemaker” was a six-engine, very heavy bomber produced to meet specifications issued by the Army Air Corps on April 11, 1941, for what appeared at the time an impossible task: an intercontinental […]
Roughly a dozen Lockheed F-104 Starfighters have served with NASA, and the Estrella Warbirds Museum in Paso Robles, California is lucky enough to have one of them on loan for display. Their Starfighter is TF-104G 61-3064. […]
by John M. Caratola, PhD. From the very beginning of organized warfare, men in combat have adorned their weapons, shields, or regalia with symbols, designs, or art work that expressed either individuality or group affiliation. […]
Carl “Skip” Bell was born at Emory Hospital on August 6, 1945, the same day the B-29 Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. He said of the coincidence, “How about that, two man-made […]
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