OAKLAND, California — Bobbie Phelps Wolverton, author of “Behind The Smile” will speak at the Oakland Aviation Museum’s next Open Cockpit Day Sept. 15. Wolverton was a flight attendant for World Airways, an international charter airline company headquartered in Oakland, California. She flew for six years into Vietnam during the height of the war, taking […]
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Win a chance to fly a DC-3
The Historic Flight Foundation will make 12 people “Pilots for a Day,” giving them a chance to fly a restored 1930s-era DC-3 on Tuesday, Aug. 27. To get a chance to fly the DC-3 and get a behind-the-scenes look at the Historic Flight Foundation, you have until Friday, Aug. 16, to visit the foundation’s website or […]
747 prototype open for tours at Museum of Flight
SEATTLE — Visitors to The Museum of Flight during August weekends will be able to board one of the most influential aircraft in the history of commercial aviation — the Boeing 747 prototype. The historic aircraft was never used as an airliner, and has seldom been open to the public since its maiden flight in […]
Museum secures funding for Lockheed Electra
SEATTLE — A 1935 vintage Lockheed Model 10-E Electra transport aircraft identical to the one used by Amelia Earhart on her ill-fated trip around the world in 1937 will be the centerpiece of a permanent Earhart exhibit opening at the Museum of Flight Oct. 12. Project Amelia, a fundraising campaign conducted by Museum of Flight […]
Rare Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece at National Air and Space Museum
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Leonardo da Vinci’s “Codex on the Flight of Birds” will be exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum for 40 days this fall, from Sept. 13 until Oct. 22. The extraordinary document, created in 1505, shows da Vinci’s interest in human flight by exploring bird flight and behavior. It includes […]
Four to enter National Aviation Hall of Fame
DAYTON, Ohio — The National Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF) will soon add four more names to its roster of 215 air and space pioneers previously honored by the Congressionally chartered organization. Among the four individuals to be inducted on Oct. 4, is the first Army Aviator to be enshrined into the Hall, retired Major […]
Fly-Around Dine-Around Fundraiser features Apollo astronauts
HUTCHINSON, Kansas — The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center’s annual end-of-summer fundraising event is celebrating its second year on Aug. 24. The Cosmosphere will welcome Apollo astronauts Buzz Aldrin (Apollo XI, Gemini XII), Walt Cunningham (Apollo VII), Joe Engle (Backup LM Pilot for Apollo XIV, STS-51I), Richard Gordon (Apollo XII, Gemini XI) and Fred Haise […]
Golf tournament to benefit Glenn H. Curtiss Museum
HAMMONDSPORT, NY — The Curtiss Museum Golf Classic will be held Monday, Aug. 19 at the Bath Country Club, 330 May Street in Bath. All golfers are invited to participate in this 18-hole scramble-format tournament to benefit the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum. The event will begin with a continental breakfast at 8 am, followed by […]
Air Zoo to restore historic World War II fighter
KALAMAZOO, Mich. — The Air Zoo has been selected by the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation to oversee restoration of a historic World War II era “Wildcat” fighter recovered from the bottom of Lake Michigan after 68 years. The plane, an Eastern Aircraft FM-2 “Wildcat,” Bureau Number 57039, was recovered from 200 feet of water by […]