Madras, Oregon, is home to a remarkable airport-one without fences or gates-where one of the largest and most active private aircraft collections in the United States resides: the Erickson Aircraft ...
Die-cast airplane models are highly detailed metal replicas of real aircraft, popular among aviation enthusiasts for their accuracy, attention to detail, and historical significance. The hobby has a ...
Jack Erickson is an aviation icon. The founder of Erickson Aviation transformed the Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane into the Erickson Aircrane, a huge heavy-lift helicopter that has become a heralded platform ...
EL RENO, Okla. (KFOR) — If you ask airplane collector Tony Caldwell, the era between the World Wars, the 1920s to the early 1940s, is the best for aviation history. He argued, “I think this era has ...
Eugene Kettering, an engineer and philanthropist, founded the Air Force Museum Foundation and established the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, largely through the long-term loan ...
SHANNON, Ireland (Reuters) - When Irishman Michael Kelly was a boy, he loved nothing more than gazing at planes taking off and landing at his nearest airport. Now 67, after more than half a century ...
Click to open image viewer. [NASM-9A16192] Ray Stits posed beside his Stits SA-2 Sky Baby (r/n N5K). CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection consists of 20.6 cubic feet ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Herbert J. Nash appears to have been an amateur photographer, aviation enthusiast, and airplane photograph collector and based in the New York ...
Harry Everett Smith was a painter, filmmaker, and collector, but he considered himself primarily an anthropologist. Aside from a short stint at Berkeley with a researcher who studied Native American ...