WATCH: Airman Crushes 9 G Supersonic Fam Ride in an F-16D Viper.
Handling a Backseat Ride Like This Can Make You a Flight Line Legend How many of us would jump at the opportunity to ride in the back seat of an…
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Bill Walton
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Bill Walton is a life-long aviation enthusiast and expert in aircraft recognition. As a teenager Bill helped his engineer father build an award-winning T-18 homebuilt airplane in their Wisconsin basement. Bill is a freelance writer, an avid sailor, engineer, announcer, husband, father, uncle, mentor, coach, and Navy veteran. Bill lives north of Houston TX with his wife and son under the approach path to KDWH runway 17R, which means they get to look up at a lot of airplanes. A very good thing.
WATCH: Operating Spads and Jets from Straight Decks aboard the Hanna
The USS Hancock was Operating Jets from a Straight Deck for the Last Time in this Video The Essex-class carrier USS Hancock (CVA-19) was launched on 24 January 1944 and…
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Profiles in Aviation: Berlin Airlifter Gail Halvorsen Became “The Candy Bomber”
His Has Been a Lifetime of Compassionate Service With Some Incredible Plot Twists Along the Way This is the story of a man who was born in 1920 and grew…
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WATCH: When the Last Operational Tomcats Made History
These F-14 Tomcat ‘Sunset’ Cruise Videos Are Both Awesome and the Last of Their Kind On 10 March 2006, US Navy Fighter Squadron TWO ONE THREE (VF-213) Blacklions Lieutenants Ken…
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WATCH: ‘Geiger Tigers’ Took Air Defense to New Laughs
These 1950s Air Defense Command Pilots Didn’t Take Themselves Too Seriously- and It Showed We’ve unearthed some classic gag films while prosecuting our never-ending search for great aerospace content. From…
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WATCH: Flying From the ‘Shang’ With the Sixth Fleet
This HD Action Shot Aboard the Carrier Shangri-La Takes Us Back to a Colorful Time The Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La (CVA-38) was launched on 24 February 1944 and commissioned…
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WATCH: You Don’t Mess With Texas or a B-17G Flying Fortress
How They Made One of the All-Time Great TV Spots for Avgeeks Down here in the Great State of Texas we’ve had an advertising/public service campaign called ‘Don’t Mess With…
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WATCH and LISTEN to FRED and That Fine TF39 Whine
The C-5A and C-5B Galaxies Sing You the Song of Their People The Lockheed C-5A Galaxy strategic airlifter was powered by four of the most unique jet engines ever produced.…
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WATCH: Ride Along On a BUFF Mission With This Inflight Video
B-52H Operations Today Must Look Similar to How They Looked When These BUFFs Were Born The modern Boeing B-52H Stratofortress is destined to serve for the foreseeable future as America’s…
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WATCH and LISTEN: Powerful XP-82 Twin Mustang Flies Again
Heart-Warming Sights and Sounds for the Warbird Lover in All of Us We brought you the EAA-produced video about the restoration and imminent first flight of the one-of-a-kind XP-82 Twin…
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WATCH: C-5M Super Galaxies Quick-Turn at Prestwick
These Two Giants Get In, Disgorge, and Get Out Fast – Takeoffs You Have to See to Believe On 11 July 2018, a pair of Lockheed-Martin C-5M Super Galaxy airlifters…
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The Douglas DC-9: The Little Twinjet That Roared
If You Flew a Short or Medium Distance Segment Over a Nearly 50 Year Period, You Probably Knew the Diesel Nine The Douglas Aircraft Corporation designed and built many iconic…
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