With popular production by PAC in New Zealand as utility and ag planes, the design has endured for more than 40 years and influenced several of PAC's other models. Model 1 c.1947 = 4pChwM. POP: 1 [NX1427x]. Navion 1953 = 4pClwM rg; 225hp Continental O-470; specs similar to ...
Masters of mass production, Americans began retooling to become masters of mass destruction. Manufacturers were working night and day turning radios into radar and Fords into fighter planes. General Motors would take a detour on the road to the world of tomorrow to supply our fighting men. After...
“Jenny” biplanes, was the first use of US Army (now Air Force) airplanes in a U.S. military campaign. Their Columbus-based operation was, in effect, the birth of what later became the United States Air Force – and, later with the development of rotary wing aircraft (helicopters), ...
Airbus, Boeing to Share Order; to Make 460 Planes for American Airlines
At the end of the two weeks, Jim and I had accomplished the hand-off of the CIA project. I headed home in the GTO, tripping into Tombstone and the US Army fort at Apache Pass. I wandered to the Salton Sea, stopped at Chino to see Planes of Fame and the legendary Chris Fahey, who...
“unique” we are and nothing would have changed. Even getting the FAA to learn from the Canadians, my office even made an international trip, was a challenge because it wasn’t invented here. Meanwhile they have computers while we use paper flight strips to manage planes. The on...
Douglas O-38E of the Haitian Guard Aviation Corps. Another unusual aircraft usually thought of as only an obsolete trainer by the Second World War, was the Douglas O-38E. Although a fair number of these 1933 vintage observation biplanes survived as trainer and target tugs in US service, the...