PHOTOS: August 03-04, 2015 Another one off my Frontier want list - N229FR 'Peachy the Fox' and what a nice departure bank it made. Also, an ERJ in Republic titles. I haven't seen one of those in awhile. And the heart breaker of the day was a Pipeline Patrol that didn't take its normal route. It...

Guess which one is the Democrat....

The Douglas A2D Skyshark was intended as a successor to the Douglas AD Skyraider. It appeared at a time when the Navy was reluctant to use pure jet aircraft on its aircraft carriers, and it was powered by a turboprop engine. Although it had substantial performance improvements over the...

It was intended to carry 600 well-heeled passengers across the Atlantic at a stately 87 knots. Its amenities were steamship-like — staterooms, ballrooms, dining rooms, a main salon with a 35-foot ceiling — and arranged on several levels. For landing it had two gigantic pontoons because an...

Having designed everything from household appliances to transcontinental trains, Norman Bel Geddes turned his sights to the skies, creating in 1929 one of the most ambitious commercial airliner concepts ever put to paper: A nine-story flying amphibious behemoth dubbed simply "Airliner #4."...

Target practice for a B-26 Propaganda film (in German): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc6qSgbb0d0

I wonder if there's much left to salvage after 70 years. To reduce weight and to save on aluminum, much of the wing was made of plywood and fabric, while the fuselage was of metal tube construction with wooden spars and covered with doped fabric. But there's always the chance that some billionaire...

Now here's one idea (1947) whose time finally came