Over the past seven years of researching aviation stories on the web, I have kept a folder on my laptop dedicated to images of Second World War aircraft that had been captured and had suffered the indignity of being painted in the national makings of the enemy they were designed to fight and vanquish–like a … Dowiedz się więcej
You are standing at the very edge of a steel cliff, high above the Indian Ocean. You look backwards across a hot steel deck shimmering in the 100ºF heat to the vast expanse of pale white-blue ocean. A white churning wake recedes in an arrow straight line, like pale smoke, until it disappears into the … Dowiedz się więcej
There was a time before computer modelling when all sorts of concepts were given an aerodynamic chance at life. It was a time of great experimentation and excitement. The aviation world was full of some pretty strange one-off aircraft the were either outright failures or before or after their time. In the case of the … Dowiedz się więcej
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
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
I am very happy to announce the nomination of Travis (Brass) Brassington of Calgary, Alberta to the position of Demo Pilot for the upcoming 2014 season. Brass comes to the Hawk One team highly recommended. Brass is currently a pilot with Westjet. He is a former CF-18 Demo pilot. Welcome to Hawk One Brass, Pierre … Dowiedz się więcej