by Vintage Aircraft Association | Aug 9, 2015 | Mystery Airplane
No one correctly identified the June Mystery Plane. It proved to be a Boeing aircraft that was completed in 1920 — designated the Model 8 (BB-L6). The information we have was taken from Pete Bowers excellent book “Boeing Aircraft Since 1916” and includes...
by Vintage Aircraft Association | May 31, 2015 | Mystery Airplane
By Wesley R. Smith (Copyright 2015) The Story of the 1921 Fetters “Kite,” or, perhaps, more correctly; the; 1921 Fetters Sport Biplane, actually begins with the birth of Giuseppe Mario Bellanca on 19 March 1886 at Sciacca, Italy. Two years and 10 days...
by Vintage Aircraft Association | Mar 23, 2015 | Mystery Airplane
Like several other designers, Donald Douglas believed that a large number of pilots who had left the Air Service at the end of the war wanted to continue flying as a sport and that a market existed for an inexpensive light aircraft. In an attempt to capture a share of...
by Vintage Aircraft Association | Jan 27, 2015 | Mystery Airplane
Copyright 2014 by WESLEY R. SMITH Correct answers to this “mystery plane” were received from Terry Bowden, and Wayne Muxlow. The story of the Emsco B-3-A cannot be told without telling the tale of Charles F. Rocheville. Like many such stories in the annals...
by Vintage Aircraft Association | Nov 23, 2014 | Mystery Airplane
by Wesley R. Smith Copyright 2014 In the nearly 50 years that I have been a student of Aviation History, a number of aircraft have come my way which I know nothing about; and despite the numerous research aids now available, have remained a mystery. One such aircraft...
by Vintage Aircraft Association | Sep 28, 2014 | Mystery Airplane
W-F-W AIRCRAFT CORPORATION; THUNDERBIRD AIRCRAFT, INC; GENERAL AIRCRAFT CORPORATION W-14 THUNDERBIRD Bowerairlines — W-F-W Aircraft Corporation: Thunderbird Aircraft, Inc., General Aviation Corporation M-14 Thunderbird — dated June 24, 2014 3:13 pm. BY:...
