April 2023 Articles

• The time they formed the company, 1925, was a heady period to be in aviation. Advancements were made almost daily, the most important being a whole new series of more reliable, more powerful engines: radials from Wright and Pratt & Whitney helped fuel the new designs. Travel Air initially produced a series of big, three-place […]

  

  Travel Air A-6000A – Early airborne darling of executives

  The time they formed the company, 1925, was a heady period to be in aviation. Advancements were made almost daily, the most important being a whole new series of more reliable, more powerful engines: radials from Wright and Pratt & Whitney helped fuel the new designs. Travel Air initially produced a series of big, three-place […]
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• Although I was born in Canada, my folks moved to Seattle when I was two years old. When I was 20 years old I decided that I wanted to get into flying. The ’20s were kind of a romantic time as I and the rest of the country followed the flights of Lindbergh crossing in […]

  

  Who’s Afraid of the Dark? – An American Night Fighter Hunts For Prey

  Although I was born in Canada, my folks moved to Seattle when I was two years old. When I was 20 years old I decided that I wanted to get into flying. The ’20s were kind of a romantic time as I and the rest of the country followed the flights of Lindbergh crossing in […]
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• Ask Mark Meredith what maneuver he likes to fly most in his 1951 DeHavilland Super Chipmunk and his answer is immediate: “I love doing Cloverleafs!” The well-known aerobatic figure—a loop with a quarter-roll wherein a pilot pulls up and rolls 90 degrees from the airplane’s original heading as it passes through wings level inverted-is typical […]

  

  “Chippy’s” Cloverleafs – The many lives of DeHavilland Super Chipmunk N7DW

  Ask Mark Meredith what maneuver he likes to fly most in his 1951 DeHavilland Super Chipmunk and his answer is immediate: “I love doing Cloverleafs!” The well-known aerobatic figure—a loop with a quarter-roll wherein a pilot pulls up and rolls 90 degrees from the airplane’s original heading as it passes through wings level inverted-is typical […]
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• Marcel Albert flew and fought under three flags during World War II: First with the air force of his native France, then with the Royal Air Force in Britain, before becoming a high-scoring fighter ace flying Soviet “Yak” fighters against the Germans on the Eastern Front with the Normandie-Niémen Regiment. “On October 16, 1944, we […]

  

  TRICOLOR ACE – French pilot Marcel Albert flies Soviet Yaks against the Luftwaffe

  Marcel Albert flew and fought under three flags during World War II: First with the air force of his native France, then with the Royal Air Force in Britain, before becoming a high-scoring fighter ace flying Soviet “Yak” fighters against the Germans on the Eastern Front with the Normandie-Niémen Regiment. “On October 16, 1944, we […]
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• To bolster the action against Allied ships trying to bring supplies to the island of Malta in December 1941, several units including JG 53 were transferred to the African theater of operations. The first unit to arrive was III./JG 53, based in Catania, Sicily, on November 28. A few days later, they were transferred to […]

  

  German refugee in Sicily

  To bolster the action against Allied ships trying to bring supplies to the island of Malta in December 1941, several units including JG 53 were transferred to the African theater of operations. The first unit to arrive was III./JG 53, based in Catania, Sicily, on November 28. A few days later, they were transferred to […]
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• At the end of the Korean War in 1953, there were 39 Sabre aces, and one more was added 50 years later after footage of some gun-camera film had been closely examined. All these pilots had the right stuff, and they also had the good fortune to be in the right place at the right […]

  

  Adventures of a sabre ace – F-86s and MiGs mix it up over North Korea

  At the end of the Korean War in 1953, there were 39 Sabre aces, and one more was added 50 years later after footage of some gun-camera film had been closely examined. All these pilots had the right stuff, and they also had the good fortune to be in the right place at the right […]
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• Back in the late 1930s, I decided I wanted to get into aerobatics. I had been to a bunch of airshows, and it just seemed like something I wanted to do. So I went out and bought an F-2 WACO that had the reputation of being a good aerobatic airplane, but it turned out to […]

  

  It’s the Pilot, Not The Machine

  Back in the late 1930s, I decided I wanted to get into aerobatics. I had been to a bunch of airshows, and it just seemed like something I wanted to do. So I went out and bought an F-2 WACO that had the reputation of being a good aerobatic airplane, but it turned out to […]
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