Author Archives: Writer

Airplanes are to Wichita what cars are to Detroit. Ask just about any of the 390,000 residents of this Kansas town. They either build airplanes for a living or know someone who does or did. From economic boom to bust … Continue reading →

The Link Trainer, aka Blue Box or Pilot Trainer, was the world’s first commercially built flight simulator. It was designed and built by Edin Albert Link in the 1930s and was based on revolutionary techniques and equipment pioneered by Edward in the … Continue reading →

Built in Havelock, this 1929 Arrow Sport retailed for about $3,000. Now fully restored, it’s for sale for nearly $90,000. Article source: https://journalstar.com/news/local/for-k-a-flying-piece-of-havelock-history/article_96cea3d0-6791-5a30-8d03-37b1f14990c2.html

A 54-year-old man from Cambridgeshire has built the ‘world’s first’ flight simulator for the F-35B fighter jet. The grandfather built the replica in his garden shed and spent a total of £30,000 and three months on the endeavour.   Kenneth Mockford … Continue reading →

Rutan, meanwhile, was thinking about the Brobdingnagian airplane that would eventually become Stratolaunch. In 1992 he had been summoned by Antonio Elias, a senior executive at a commercial space company called Orbital Sciences Corporation, to meet with a small group. … Continue reading →

  Q: Greg, I really enjoy “Cars We Remember” and would like to know more about Chrysler during the war years and also about two cars my grandfather owned, a 1957 Chrysler New Yorker and then a 1958 Chrysler Imperial. … Continue reading →