by John Chvatal | Aug 17, 2018 | Aviation Legacy
Editor’s Note: This article excerpt originally appeared in The Weekend Australian Magazine. In the autumn of 1945, a troop of young Australian soldiers was trudging through the muddy rainforests of New Britain, an island in the east of what is now Papua New...
by Guest Editorial | Aug 17, 2017 | Aviation Legacy
Guest Editorial By David Bond There has been a lot of publicity about the fate of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan in the media of late. One of these was a two hour documentary on the History Channel concerning a photo purported to show Amelia and Fred on the dock at...
by Guest Editorial | Jun 30, 2017 | Aviation Legacy
by Jack Kinyon, Air Transport Command (ATC) 1942-1947 The Beginning After the bombing of Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, the United States was suddenly involved in two major wars. One in the Pacific against Japan and the other in Europe against Germany. Troops...
by Guest Editorial | Sep 27, 2016 | Aviation Legacy
There is very little known about a search project based out of Australia that has been searching for the Amelia Earhart Lockheed Electra aircraft missing since July 1937. Theories about Amelia Earhart abound Although there are a few theories concerning the...
by Clayton J. Stott | Apr 30, 2015 | Aviation Legacy
First Across the Atlantic When we are asked about who was the first pilot to cross the Atlantic Ocean, the answer usually is Charles Lindbergh. While that is a correct answer, he was not the first to do so. He was the first pilot to navigate across the ocean from New...
by John Chvatal | Mar 17, 2015 | Aviation Legacy
Henry Ford continued his quest to revolutionize travel by introducing the world to air travel. The Ford Trimotor became the world’s first all-metal airliner. By the end of the Ford Trimotor’s commercial career, it had served well over 100...
