In the period immediately after the Second World War, there were two major surpluses created which would ultimately be a breeding ground for either great ideas or bad ideas. Immediately following cessation of hostilities around the planet, war production ground to a halt and the world found itself with hundreds of thousands of surplus aircraft … Dowiedz się więcej
The HN and Francis C. Berger Foundation and the Houston Family Foundation present THE US COAST GUARD IN VIETNAM by Dr. Douglas Kroll. Vietnam is usually remembered as a war fought in jungles and rice paddies. But there was another conflict as well, a sailor’s war, much of it fought from the decks of United … Dowiedz się więcej
Santa Arrives by helicopter at the Hiller Aviation Museum Saturday November 30 at 10am Join us for Christmas Carols by the West Bay Community Band Cookies, sodas and candy canes Santa will be available from 10am-12pm to listen to the kids Christmas list No Charge for Santa’s arrival – sponsored by the San Carlos Chamber of … Dowiedz się więcej
The first of 25 Tiger Moths ordered by the Department of National Defence for the Royal Canadian Air Force was test flown at the de Havilland Aerodrome during Christmas week. These aircraft are equipped for interchangeability of wheels, skis and floats. The majority of them may be first operated on skis, since the first machine … Dowiedz się więcej
This past summer, while researching images of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan operations at No. 36 Service Flying Training School at Penhold, Alberta, I went to one of the greatest and least likely sources of photographic historical records – the photo/social media site known as Flickr. It is here, more often these days than … Dowiedz się więcej
