by Vintage Aircraft Association | Jun 6, 2019 | Home Page, News, Outstanding Flights, Related Aviation News, VAA News
(Ed. Note: For many years those of us who knew Charlie Harris as a writer would wake up on the morning of June 6th with the following message in our inboxes. Today on the 75th anniversary Charlie’s life-long friend, business partner, and dedicated member of our...
by Vintage Aircraft Association | Apr 19, 2018 | Magazine Extras, Outstanding Flights
Intro and research by Wes Schmid, VAA Director Emeritus, VAA 6688, EAA 3113 Since World War I, American bombers were open cockpit, tube, wood and fabric biplanes, but in the early 1930s there were two new aircraft that revolutionized U.S. Army Air Corp. bomber...
by Vintage Aircraft Association | Feb 18, 2018 | Outstanding Flights
Intro and research by Wes Schmid, VAA Director Emeritus, VAA 6688, EAA 3113 Frank Hawks set hundreds of speed records in the 1920s and 30s flying some of that periods fastest, high performance aircraft. One record, however, was not a speed record. It started March 30,...
by Vintage Aircraft Association | Dec 17, 2017 | Outstanding Flights
When planning to cross the Atlantic Ocean in the 20s and 30s pilots settled on just one aircraft for the attempt. So when Italy’s Minister of Air, General Italo Balbo, in 1933 announced his plan to lead a squadron of 25 seaplanes across the Atlantic it was looked upon...
by Vintage Aircraft Association | Oct 4, 2017 | Outstanding Flights
Intro and research by Wes Schmid, VAA Director Emeritus, VAA 6688, EAA 3113 Conquering the vast Pacific ocean by air was a challenge still facing aviators in the late 1920s. Ready to accept the challenge was Squadron Leader Charles E. Kingsford-Smith who on the...
by Vintage Aircraft Association | Aug 15, 2017 | Outstanding Flights
Intro and research by Wes Schmid, VAA 6688, EAA 3113 The first trans-continental flight across America was made in 1911, just 8 years after the Wright’s historic 59 second, 852 foot distance flown over the sands at Kitty Hawk January 17, 1903. But it took Calbraith...
