Progress report on our friends in Urbana Ohio on Champaign Lady their B-17G project....
Follow along as the Champaign Lady B-17 retoration project continues to make history alive. This B-17 Flying Fortress project has been a work in progress for...
AIRSHOW PERFORMER ALERT! Greg Koontz has been performing in airshows since 1974, when he joined Col. Moser's Flying Circus and learned his trademark maneuvers from the best in the business. This airshow season, Greg returns to his roots to bring back good old-fashioned family entertainment in the best flying circus tradition! With TWO complete airshow acts, Greg Koontz and the Alabama Boys are a complete airshow package! ... See more
AIRSHOW PERFORMER ALERT! JOHN “SKIPPER” HYLE – HARVARD MK. IV “J’S BIRD” John “Skipper” Hyle is the owner and operator of this 1952 North American Harvard Mk. IV “J’s Bird” which is available for airshows, flybys, formation and films. JayMatt Aviation dba “Air Corps Aerobatics” provides a living history bent to your airshow, we come in period flight gear and perform an act based on the World War II Acro Check that every Allied pilot took in the T-6, SNJ, or Harvard. ... See more
AIRSHOW PERFORMER ALERT! B-17 "The Movie Memphis Belle" Please join us for a flight into history aboard the famous B-17 Flying Fortress “Movie Memphis Belle” at the National Warplane Museum’s Geneseo Airshow. Take your position and experience first-hand what it may have been like to be a bombardier, waist gunner or flight engineer on a mission over Germany during WWII. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to experience the sights and sounds of a WWII Heavy Bomber made famous by the aircraft’s starring role in the movie Memphis Belle. ... See more
Blue skies and tail winds old friend.
Aug. 19, 1921 — March 10, 2019 Donald A. Stevens, who went from building airplanes in a Baltimore factory to flying them in heroic missi...
The model of the TBM is really cool...
Here's a short video showing a few of the planes we found in the debris field of the USS Wasp CV-7. There is also an animation made from a 3D model of one of those planes, a Grumman Avenger.
Video from the wreck site of the USS Wasp. It has some interesting history of the ship also.....
A video of the USS Wasp CV-7 with (Ret.) Adm. Sam Cox, the Director of the Naval History and Heritage command talking about the Wasp.
The work continues... Thanks to Paul Allen for starting this project and for the foresight to keep it going after his passing.....
Here are the sonar images from the USS Wasp CV-7. Also, you can read another first hand account of the Wasp sinking here. https://usnhistory.navylive.dodlive.mil/2019/02/20/wasp-sailor-survives-sinking/ ... See more
