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SATELLITES TOOK PHOTOS OF THE SOVIET UNION. HOW TO GET THOSE PICTURES BACK TO EARTH? The briefing took place at 7:00 a.m., and two hours later a Fairchild C-119J Flying [...]

IT WAS OVER QUICKLY. ON APRIL 15, 1969, A NORTH KOREAN MIG-21 SHOT DOWN ON UNARMED U.S. NOVA LOCKHEED EC-121M RECONNAISSANCE PLANE OVER INTERNATIONAL WATERS. All 31 on board--30 sailors [...]

THE MID-1920S WAS AN ERA MARKED BY AVIATION CHALLENGES, AS PILOTS PUSHED THEMSELVES AND THEIR AIRPLANES TO THE LIMIT ON RECORD-BREAKING FLIGHT ATTEMPTS. In April 1924 four Douglas World Cruiser [...]

Hmong the aircraft on display at the Air Zoo Aerospace & Science Museum near Kalamazoo, Mich., is a beautiful hand-built Sopwith F.1 Camel reproduction. An extraordinary chain of events led [...]

Among the first things visitors to the Yankee Air Museum in Belleville, Mich., notice is a Boeing B-52D Stratofortress, parked in a fenced-offarea adjacent to Willow Run Airport. It's hard [...]

The article explores an attempt made by Midwesterners Edward F. Schlee and Bill Brock to fly around the world in a Stinson biplane three months after Charles Lindbergh's celebrated transatlantic flight in May 1927. It describes the SM-1 Detroiter chosen by Schlee and Brock for their journey. It discusses the challenges they faced during the flight and their reason for deciding not to complete their journey.

The article discusses that Air Zoo Aerospace & Science Museum near Kalamazoo, Michigan has hand-built Sopwith F.l Camel reproduction. The aircraft was a state-of: the-art fighter when the British firm rolled it. The airplane's name was derived from the hump-shaped cover over its Vickers synchronized machine guns, mounted side by side in front of the cockpit. A. Gordon Beatty, and his family and Kalamazo Air Zoo restoration personnel spent decades on the project.

The article focuses on volunteers working to restore a B-52D Startofortess at the Yankee Air Museum in Belleville, Michigan. It mentions Stratofortress served with distinction in the Vietnam War, and some of those involved with the bomber's extensive restoration actually worked on it during the war. It also mentions restoration work has included reskinning both wing roots and all engine cowlings and draining fluids and similar maintenance.