https://www.youtube.com/embed/ehwvZXVKmPU "If I were a rich man, ya da dah dah da dum..." So goes the song from "Fiddl...

As that old cigarette commercial had for a slogan back in the day, "You've Come a Long Way, Baby,"here is mute testimony to...

I find this to be a very fascinating photo of a plane of the future as illustrated in an old Mechanics Illustrated magazine. Not being an ...

Over the years, a number of people have asked me about the WWII aircraft that crashed over in the area behind Cedar Gardens. Somewhere in ...

It took a lot of tweaking to restore this faded, torn and tattered clipping from an old scrapbook which was also in terrible condition. Thes...

I learn something new every day, and this is a fact that I found buried deep in an old 1909 newspaper. It gives an insight to the early year...

When I was a boy building "stick" model airplanes, one of my favorite models and as it turned out, one of my best was my model of ...

At first glance the above aircraft would seem to be an early helicopter. However, the helicopter has rotary blades that are POWERED by an en...

The mobilization effort in America was an incredible experience in efficiency, rapidity, and above all, patriotism. As can be seen in the ar...

Here they are, the lovely Miss Avenger and her two "runners-up" to the crown as they pose in the cockpit of a Grumman Avenger in E...

During the WWII era, the letter "P" prefixing an aircraft was the designation they gave to a pursuit aircraft. As time passed and ...

One wonders how many of the young men in the photo actually went into Uncle Sam's United States Air Corps as a result of the meeting pic...

My very dear friend, the late Steve Horvath was a Switlik man from the word "go." I grew up with Steve on Hartley Avenue, and in h...

The pilot of this airplane slowed down too much, the slow RPM of propellor couldn't sustain the weight of the plane, and the crash descr...

From the "Aircraft" and "Local Businesses" folder comes this very interesting graphic which tells of the successful thou...

In my very lucid memory, I can still see those beautiful navy "Avengers" buzzing over my Hamilton home back during the WWII years...

I haven't heard the drone of a DC3 or C47 passing overhead since the arrival of the jet age, but I be I would recognize that familiar so...

GEORGE GOLDY RECALLS THE CRASH. HERE'S HIS EMAIL DETAILING THE INCIDENT: Tom I remember the crash in 1944. I lived in Lakeside and went ...

MANY AIRCRAFT ADS BACK IN THE AREA IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING WWII WERE SUGGESTING THAT THE AIRPLANE, ALONG WITH THE AUTOMOBILE WOULD MAKE A COMP...