Discover the story of the rare 1933 Stinson Model O, a once-lost military trainer recreated from scratch and now displayed at the Museum of Flight. Randy Malmstrom traces its origins, global service, ...

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The curio cabinets are empty of their curiosities. The items that once jammed the aisles and rose to the rafters inside The Georgian Village antique shop on the northeast corner of 45th and Bell ...

Sleek, daring, and breathtaking, British racing aircraft of the 1920s and 1930s combined ravishing beauty with tremendous performance. From the elegant Supermarine S4 to the record-breaking Gloster VI ...

A man of many trades during his lifetime, Charles Edward Lawrence saw that all projects were carried out fully and correctly. “Charlie, when he started something, he finished it,” said Margaret ...

Click to open image viewer. The Huff-Daland Duster was designed in 1925 for a new method of controlling agricultural insect pests, aerial crop dusting. The Huff-Daland Manufacturing Company modified ...

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DESPITE HIS HUMBLE BEGINNINGS as the penniless son of Czech immigrants, my father, Walter Soplata, amassed an extraordinary collection of warbirds. He grew up fascinated by airplanes during the Great ...

Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot’s license. Coleman grew up in a cruel world of poverty and discrimination. She ...