PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Christen Eagle II

Christen Eagle II (c/n PFA 138-14627, OK-IGL), flying display at Memorial Air Show 2019, Roudnice nad Labem airfield, June 2019. In the 1960s, Frank L. Christensen, an American student of the senior year at Stanford […]

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Fairchild Model 24

Fairchild Model 24 W46 (c/n W-46-251, formerly N8155) exhibited at Deutsches Museum / Flugwerft Schleissheim, Munich, October 2019. The economic downturn of the early 1930s, caused by the Great Depression, forced the Fairchild Aviation Corporation […]

SHORT AVIATION STORIES

Hugo Junkers

Hugo Junkers, a renowned German aviation engineer and aircraft pioneer, was born on 3 February 1859 in Rheydt, today a borough of the city of Mönchengladbach. His father owned a cotton weaving mill, ensuring the […]

SHORT AVIATION STORIES

Lockheed P-38 Lightning

The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was a single-seat, twin-engine fighter aircraft of the Second World War. The aircraft was used worldwide by the United States Army Air Forces in a variety of combat roles, proving particularly […]