In 1941, young airmen-in-training enrolled in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan were thousands of miles and months away from the hardships, deprivations and mortal dangers of the aerial battlefront. …

The tradition in the Rudin-Brown family is for each child to take her first ‘flight with Daddy’ as soon as she turns five. Our youngest daughter, Sabine, recently had her birthday and, like older sisters Sidney and Lene, …

This a visual story of two photo shoots of vintage warbirds that happened on the very same day - one in bright sunlight, the other in total darkness….

If you are a pilot, and somehow, despite all the stupid, regrettable and bonehead pilot stuff you did over your career, you find yourself in heaven, God will check you out in the airplane of your dreams,…

This year was the 22nd Annual Challenger Winter Rendezvous with over 30 Challenger Ultralight aircraft expected. One can imagine that potential challenges for the Challengers include, overly cold temperatures, wind, general weather conditions…

On Wednesday, August 11th, 1954, a tired looking and disheveled Dieter Zwillingsbiber, wearing the same overcoat as he did when he was captured in 1945, was shoved out of a drab green army van in the town of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern…

SOPs, checklists and emergency procedures cannot prepare an arachnophobic jet team pilot for the eventuality of a big, hairy, scary tarantula dangling over his lap during a five-plane, line-abreast roll…

Allnutt had crossed the Potomac River to Washington's Dulles airport to watch as Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) made one last eye-popping and glorious flight aboard NASA's gleaming and massive 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) from the Shuttle Landing Facility …

Todd Lemieux is a pilot with and a member of the Board of Directors of Vintage Wings of Canada. His boundless energy, infused with a refreshing Western can-do spirit and a heavy dose of Saskatchewan farm-boy, binder twine, ..

There are many things that make up the recipe for the heady cocktail that is powered or unpowered flight – history, technology, speed, brotherhood or perhaps the extreme test of human reflex …

Being in my seventh decade, and comfortable living at the trailing edge of technology, I was somewhat slow to sign up for a Twitter Account and become a card-carrying member of the Twitter Generation,

A truly unique event takes place in Reno, Nevada, every September – the National Championship Air Races. This gathering of pilots, aircraft, crews and crowds are all part of the fastest motor sport in the world. ..

There are many payoffs from writing this weekly news and history column known as Vintage News—the pure joy of learning about our remarkably varied and fascinating aviation heritage; the pride in capturing stories …

Here's the scene. A couple of us 60 year-olds are sitting in a food court in some nameless mall, just starting in on their double double coffees and hot breakfast sandwich on a biscuit, the wife unwrapping a cinnamon bagel,…

In 1944, a slow-moving, rust-stained freighter, perhaps of the Empire class, braved the cold, dark and U-boat infested waters of the North Atlantic Ocean amongst dozens of other ships, …

Over the years, I periodically and repeatedly came across two entirely different series of photographs, taken 45 years apart. The first group was taken in 1950 by famed LIFE magazine photographer Loomis Dean…

Arguably the most beautiful biplanes ever built [By the British - Ed.] and the most famous aircraft serving with Commonwealth forces between the wars were the classic silver Hawker biplanes. …

I’m not sure exactly when it all began—this fascination for airplanes. Especially the vintage ones. Sure, as kids we all loved airplanes at one time

Military pilots the world over study the extreme art of flying and fighting their aircraft to the absolute maximum of their capabilities. Competition is the lifeblood of the Canadian Air Force pilot—to be the best,…

During the First World War, there were three Canadian-born Royal Flying Corps recipients of the Victoria Cross. All three of them survived the actions for which ….