Aviation History [Archive] - ProPilotWorld.com

50th Anniversary, Learjet first flight: 10/7/13
Nadia Popova-- The Night Witches
Starship
Boat/Plane was owned by Howard Hughes
P-38 and F4U-4
Per Ardua ad Astra
My uncle's old Stearman.
Giant Concrete Arrows
The U-2 Declassified
5 Men at Ground Zero
Russians search for lost '30s-era Soviet bomber in Alaska
The Greatest Generation, An RTB
That's a big oil drip pan.
Flying the mustang
Flying the Duck
Another Mosquito ready to fly
Shanksville, PA 9/11 Memorial
JFK Furious Over Pan Am Concorde Order In Declassified Phone Calls
A Messerschmitt for sale....and we can afford it....!
Save a B-25
17 Bizarre aircraft we love and the stories behind them
Old Long Island Airports
World's 'first airport' largely unknown
Veteran of Three Wars
9/11 Recap - Thoughts and disscussion
BBC Piece on the Spitfire
In cockpit Corsair
In cockpit Spitfire
Snafu
Shotgun start
Seaboard World 1950
Precious Metal
Ever use one of these?
Tangent Runways for New Idlewild Airport (JFK)
William Rankin - The man who rode the Thunder - VIDEO
Amazing compilation of videos
CAF moving to KRBD
Messerschmitt Me262 on PBS tonight
Flying Legends, Duxford
Freeman Airfield History
Hold my beer and watch this.
Fascinating, if sad, statistics
Amazing WWI photos
Bay Area Airway Beacon
Don't miss this...! (only a few days left)
The First Air Force One
Darryl Greenamyer - World Speed Record 1969
WW1 Centenial Airshow - PPW was there.
"Ich bin ein Berliner"...26 JUN 1963
Abandoned fleet of WWII fighter planes in Ohio
North American X-15
Historical Hangar for Sale
Lancs X 2
Flying the BF-109
GEE BEE
AW&ST DC-10 Pilot Report, 1971...
B-58 MITO Tests
Lemond2002
I always wanted to fly one of these... just thought this was a cool video
True Pioneers
"The Shrew"
C-2A Greyhound 50th Anniversary
Walt Disneys Victory through Air Power
12/16/1960 UAL DC8/TWA Connie Midair NYC
Memories of a WWII Hero
How Did Fuel Get to France after D-Day?
Lindbergh's Flight
WASP Gertrude Tompkins
Howard Hughes Crazy as a Fox by George Marrett
Great aerial rescues?
The First Air Force 1
The Forgotten Airship "Roma"
Niihau Incident
Lockheed Electra Promo Video
Concorde - First Flight March 2, 1969
T-28s in S.E. Asia
Flying Tigers, the way it was!
Flying Tigers
Flying Tigers, the real deal.
Seaboard World 1950
Wings Over China AVG
Grumman Widgeon Landed in Our Front Yard
Air Force TV - Betty Blake
Great story
Another great story. One of the Mercury 13
1919 Accident
Warbirds hidden in barns, awaiting discovery
Auctioning atomic history...
The Hard-won Triumph of the Apollo 13 Mission
United States Hydrogen Bomb Tests - Operation Dominic
Jet engines and Nickel
Discovered: 1927 Footage of Lindbergh's Visit to Seattle
Buy a "Rusty" P-51........
Reconstructing the D-Day Gliders...
Clem Sohn
Airbase Posters
UN Chief Calls for Inquiry Into Mysterious Dag Hammarskjold Plane Crash
P-40 Boys
Kee Bird - Nova
Ghost AFB -- Chanute
Benefits of folding wings
Spruce Goose to Remain in Oregon
80th anniversary of Will Rogers/Wiley Post crash
Emilio Carranza, 1905-1928 -- a long way from home
B-24 pilot shoots down Zero with M1911
B-29 Walkthrough
B-17E "Swamp Ghost" to be restored!!
KFTW Fort Worth Meacham turns 90
Attagirls
Birth of the KC-135
I give you.....The Delanne
Not forgotten
Jackie Cochran’s P-51B and P-51C Mustang racers,
Memphis Belle Was Not The First Bomber To Complete 25 Missions
Never seen one before.... (what is it)
The use of modern technology and the learning process
The Rice Sisters
B17G N1340N
The Spirit of St. Louis Flies Again
A John Moisant plane gets another wind after 1910 tragedy: Our Times
Bob Hoover
747 lands a bit short at KRNT
The Aviatrix Movie (Lady Heath) 2015
F-86 on a dirt road
Percy Pilcher's Hawk/National Museum of Flight, Scotland
The Junkers F13 Flies Again
Cessnas to Music by the BeeGees
NM ANG F-100 Shoots down B-52
WW2 Artifact Treasure Hunter
Laura Ingalls
WW-II Bomber Declared a WMD!
How sad is this??
PanAm KLM Accident
Last ever landing of first ever Boeing 727 at Boeing Field Seattle March 2nd 2016
B727 - 20K overweight w/360 pax
Legacy of Kelly Johnson
WWII B-24 Replacement Crew
1972 Southwest commercial
ANALYSIS: Pan Am's rise and fall after launching 747
New book about old aviation maps
Boeing's US Navy low level flying machine...? circa 1960's.
The Strange History Of The Word ‘Drone’
Vintage Tin
"New" P-40's buried in Louisiana
B-17 limitations
Pilot reunited with P-38
Basseville 77750
How the Soviets stole an F-86 in 1951
"Kate" wreckage on display in HI
The WWII Pilot Who Flew His P-51 Through the Arches of Eiffel Tower
The original "Flying Tiger"
B-29 "DOC" taxies for first time
Strange trip to see a garden
B-17 Question
Free Aviation History Course
RIP Ed Maloney
The pilot who stole the MIG 25
Nice present.....possibly best ever?
911 ATC Audio
In My (pilot's) Seat - the FO that missed flight 11
HELP - Looking for photo's.
Gimli Glider Gone
Pan Am Flt 6
Amazing low-flight photos
Chard
B-29 "DOC" in flight over Kansas
Escape of a Dictator 1959
Reading Material
Escape from E Germany by Homemade Hot Air Ballon
33000' free-fall survivor passes away
A Twin Otter flight ...
Airline Crash (old)
Gen Mike Hua Flies West
Golden Age of Airlines (photos in link)
Aeronautical engineering lore
Lost Dog Tags
If It Ain't Boeing, I Ain't Going!
1965 Carrier Ops
CG aviator #1
Dee Howard and the Howard 500?
Vampires can do more than suck blood.....
Lest we forget
Excavation of possible site of downed Tuskegee Airman's plane
Pilots to fly historic military planes to Dutch Harbor for 75th anniversary of bombing
Living History
FIDO - Gasoline Runway Lights
NASA Is Uploading Decades of Archival Footage to YouTube
The night Viet Cong Commandos Sank an American Aircraft Carrier
Aphrodite
The Memphis Belle Gets Her Gun
Berlin Express
Wohnblockknacker...
Last Pacific Fighter Pilot
Battle of Britain Day
I recall a jumpseater.
Lockheed Constitution
Flying Tiger 923
Beech Bonanza Hawaii-New York Non-Stop 1949
United's Last 747
DC-10-30 crash in Antarctica
Aviation character
Man Will Never Fly Memorial Society: Gone West?
Australian Flying Boats
Memphis Belle
Archie Trammell Gone West
Butch’s Wildcat
100 year ago - RAF
4/20/78 - B707 vs. SU-15
02/21/73 B727 vs F-4
Wanda Whitsitt - Lifeline Pilots founded 1981
NZ to NYC
1940-42 Airplane Trading Cards
Name that trading card airplane
Concorde's Last Flight Documentary
Netflix: Mercury 13
The Shuttle
Sad picture
FAA Airman Database
Building & Test Flying the Boeing 727 & 747
Hangar Rent By The Hour
Turtle Smuggling
McDonnell 220 Business Jet Promo Film - 1963
Low Thunderbird Pass.....
XP-82
A12
Pan Am Fan Recreates the Golden Age of Air Travel
1914 Curtis Flying Boat...in action
San Francisco Airport - 1937
Vintage airplane adverts
Ghosts Of The Sky
OJT
Formation flying P51 and B25
Flying Tiger Early Reunion Picture
The Cavalier Business aircraft demo.
This Day in Aviation...
Merlin V1650-1 overview by Jay Leno
Eastern Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation Promo Film - 1953
First Flying Tiger Line Female Captain 1949!
115 Years Ago Today
Bomber Camp
Bellegarde and Aviation
XP82 airborne!
Rest In Peace, ORD VOR
Millicent Young, WASP, dies at 96
Lockheed NF-104A Aerospace Trainer
The easy days of LORAN A Navigation
Very Cool Lockheed Super Constellation Video
Airplane/nose art search
LHR - London Heathrow International Airport - 1966 & 1972
Classic LAX Action Recorded in January 1989 (Early Tape)
Classic Airliners 1940s-1970s
McDonnell Douglas DC-10 Promo Film - 1970
Charlie Kulp Hall of Fame
USAAC Me 163 Briefing Film
Grandfather’s Logbook - Windsor Canada 1940s
10 years old writes Qantas CEO a great letter seeking advices on how to start an airline
The strange end of Donald Scratch
Clarence "Kelly" Johnson Biography
How to fly an AD6
Candid Camera: First Female American Airlines Pilot
Jacqueline Cochran May 18, 1953
The Untold Story of Skunk Works
Little history, little help
A Father's Day story
Il etait une femme.....
Lt. Col. (Ret.) Robert Friend, Tuskegee Airman, dead at 99
The Little Prince & OSH
The Memphis Belle - The Final Chapter in Memphis
Project Blue, F-BTSD...
The Greatest Program That Never Was: The U.S.’s Answer to Concorde
Rotodyne: This Might Have Been Yesteryear’s Air Uber if.....
The night a son blew up his mother's flight over Colorado
"Flying the Old Planes" by Frank Tallman
"B-25 Mitchell in action" a Squadron book
Azellia White, trailblazer for African American women in aviation, dies at 106
Tuskegee
Airports for the Supersonic Age
Jimmy Stewart
Flower Girls
Ye Old Pub
Hauptfeldwebel Karl Ehren aka Flieger's grandpappy
Celebrating the International Women's Day
Canadian bush pilots.
What type is it?
DC-3 on Floats!
That's a LOT of Type Ratings!
B-17
Lancaster Atomic Bomb
Dorothy Hester
B-52 dropping X-15
BOB
A History of the Boarding Bridge
Boeing 707 History
HMS Barham Explodes & Sinks: World War II (1941) Frame Interpolation + Color
BA retires Boeing 747s
Back to Propellers...
Lady Be Good...
Dambusters Raid May 1943
Mother & Daughter
I didn't hear about this....
Concorde (British Airways documentary)
December 7th
MKC Airline History Museum
X-Planes: Mach Busters...
A-12 Archangel (Oxcart)
ORD, MDW & Meigs 1966 Illinois Airport Directory
Lafayette (The squadron)
'The Cubs 2 OSH Story: 75 Years in the Making' - PIPER CUB SHORT FILM...
From Jars To Jets: The Forgotten Story Of The Jetwing...
LANCASTER-Single Pilot Bomber
The Ted Smith Story...
Colonel Bruce Ward Carr (a damned fine story)
V-16 P47
Flying the Prince's DH-83 Fox Moth...
Aereo De Havilland 80 Puss Moth (1930)...
DH. 89 Dragon Rapide...
Restoration of the last B-36 Bomber in Ft Worth...
Ejection Decision - A Second Too Late!
CMC Leopard...
SA-16A Albatross Training...
Bob Hoover flies the Rockwell Commander 114...
Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 200 Classic...
Top 10 Modified Boeing 747’s
The last airworthy Lockheed Super Constellation...
ELECTRA! Queen of the Aleutian Islands...
The Story of the VFW-Fokker 614...
Commander 114B Aircraft Review Vintage 1992 Wonderful World of Flying...
Ryan XV-5 Vertifan - American Jump Jet
The Flying Pig - F-111 Aardvark
A Fighter Plane That Could Shoot Itself Down - The F-11 Tiger
B-58 Hustler Supersonic Nuclear Bomber
The Ultimate Supersonic Interceptor - F-106 Delta Dart
Lockheed Skunk Works A-12
Project Have Blue - Lockheed's First Stealth Fighter
Grumman F9F Panther - Korean War Carrier Jet Fighter
Whistling Death - Vought F4U-4 Corsair
X-20 Abandoned Space Shuttle
Most Feared Fighter Jet of the Vietnam War - F-4 Phantom
The Convair B-36 that Lost a Nuclear Bomb - America's First Broken Arrow
P-61 Black Widow Night Fighter
F-100 Super Sabre - Supersonic Close Air Support in the Vietnam War
B-47 Stratojet - The Mother Jet
The Stealth Diamond - YF-23 Gray Ghost & Black Widow II
F-89 Scorpion - Nuclear Rocket Launcher
Mach 3 - Bell X-2 Starbuster
LA Speed Check
KEE Bird
Brodie Landing System
P-47 Systems
B-26 Marauder
D-Day +20 Years
The Soviet 8-Eingine Colossus - Tupolev ANT-20 Maxim Gorky
Northrop XB-35, at the Northrop plant
F-94 – The First Air Force Jet with an Afterburner
Messerschmitt 109 Lake find!
OV-1
The Only B-2 Stealth Bomber Crash caught on Tape
XB-46 – The Needle
XB-70 Valkyrie - Mach 3 Nuclear Bomber
Strangest places
May 5, 1961
B-17F "Man O' War," Nov. 9, 1942
Sopwith Camel
Paul Allen’s Project Aircraft Put Up For Sale
Biography of Michael Chowdry, Atlas Air founder
Growing Up Rutan...
The Accidental Fighter Pilot...
SR-71 landing at AF Museum Dayton...
God Bless Our Heroes
Second Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
TU-22
Kelly Johnson talks about his greatest creation the SR-71, Uncut interview...
B-36 Drops Hydrogen bomb on ABQ - 1957
Measureboots
Who here flew Water Wagons?
The REAL Story Behind THE FINAL COUNTDOWN...
Did Kelly Johnson invent the tip tank?
B-36 takeoff and landing Re edit in 4K!
Convair YB-60
F-16XL
The Extremely Secret and Stubby Convair Model 48 Charger...
How America really flew the U-2 spy plane off aircraft carriers...
Robert Preston's Wild Ride
Kamikaze Leaves Only an Imprint on a Heavy Cruiser...
Six Aircraft Carrier Aviators Who Earned the Medal of Honor...
Tinian: Then And Now
Yeager on Letterman
It's the 15th September
P-63 Kingcobra Walkaround Tour...
The story of a winged boot, and the men who wore it...
Airmail history in a tiny town
P-47 lands with one wing!
Vintage Aircraft Carrier Landings - Fails and Mishaps...
Dark Skies
F-105 Thuds in Vietnam: Going Downtown...
First run of Merlin 25 engine in 50 years!
Inside The Cockpit - Messerschmitt Me 262...
Flying a Space Plane
Come Fly With Me!
From Flying F-105s in Vietnam to Gun Running in Nicaragua - Interview with John "Pio" Piowaty
How a Supersonic Bomber Was Saved by a 2 Cent Paperclip...
North American XB-70 Promo Film
What is this?
Flug der Hansa Brandenburg C1 von Wr. NeuFlug der Hansa Brandenburg C1 von Wr. Neustadt nach Mattsee
LTV XC-142
Warbird Engine Starts: Jets — 1950s to 1970s
Warbird Engine Starts — Props & Radials
Warbird Engine Starts — Props & V-12's
PBY Catalina N9767 Flight across the Atlantic...
Go Mach 2+ with the Thunderbirds F-4 Phantom II
The last flying Lockheed Super Constellation...
SIAI Marchetti 1019: Test Flight...
Amazing Color Kodachrome Movies of Wartime Naval Aviation at Pensacola F4U-1 F3F Vultee SNV Valiant
My friend George, the Stuka pilot...
Early 1990's AA Fleet
Britain's Highly Unusual Crescent-Wing Victor Bomber...
World's last operational SE210 Caravelle - engine start and taxi @ Stockholm Arlanda, Sweden.
Kansas City's Aircraft Boneyard...
"Old Shaky"
Lockheed's C-141 "The Hanoi Taxi"
Maiden flight on the Messerschmitt Bf-109 G6 with a DB 605 Engine...
Focke-Wulf Fw 190 ~ Radial Engine Power for the Luftwaffe...
Messerschmitt Bf 109 G4 "Black 1" most produced Luftwaffe fighter...
Warbirds takeing off ~ Multiple Piston Powered Military Aircraft...
Luftwaffe Fighter Ace Erich B. is flying the Messerschmitt 109 again...
Fieseler Storch Fi-156 in flight...
Peter Jackson's Military Treasures...
Startup of a "Type 458" inertial platform of a MiG-21 fighter after almost 40 years of storage
B-17 Flying Fortress Yankee Lady 4K | Crawl Around Inside During Flight...
Focke Wulf 190 D-FWAA first public flight...
Rutan VariViggen engine start, taxi and takeoff...
How to Fly a Stearman - Landings...
The Real Truth About F-14 Tomcats and the Achille Lauro Hijacking...
Boeing 747-SP Private Jet
MiG-31...
The Battle Of Britain...
Flights of Discovery: 75 Years of Flight Research at the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center...
Quiet Short-Haul Research Aircraft...
NAS Moffett Air Show 1986...
BE-200 - aircraft / boat / firefighter / rescuer...
Super Tomcat...
Long distance pilot Max Conrad...
Spitfire evolution Mk1 to Mk24...
Catalina Miss Pick Up...
A History Of Flight...
Above and Beyond: A History of Aviation in Santa Barbara...
Pratt & Whitney - Thunder in the Sun 1958-1998...
Pioneers Of Aviation Alan and Malcolm Lockheed...
J85 Engine Test Cell... FAIL...
STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND CONVAIR B-58 HUSTLER FILM "TALL MAN FIVE FIVE" 67624z
1967 “DISCOVERY ’67" BOEING 727 JETLINER UNITED AIRLINES EDUCATIONAL FILM XD30862
A real treat. British nuclear and secret procedures during the Cold War....and much more.
The 'Caspian Sea Monster' rises from the grave…
People Express B747-200, London Gatwick airport in April 1984...
RAF Tower Bridge incident -1968
Spitfire Evolution
Vintage American Airlines Film: Flight Planning Processes 1961-1963 (LAX, JFK International Airport)
GUN CAMERA COMPILATION IN HD COLOR - PACIFIC AIR COMBAT 1944-1945 [ WWII DOCUMENTARY ]
Most damaged B-17 you ever see (supposedly)
Small plane from NJ, landed it perfectly in Manhattan - 1956
Classic Jets at Willow Run...
Classic aircraft in Yellowknife...
Adam Savage Examines the Wright Brothers 1909 Military Flyer...
De Havilland Comet Jetliner Story by WTTW Chicago...
Historic Aerials
FREE - 'US military aviation - the start' - an online lecture
WS-125 | The American super long-range strategic bomber that never flew ...
Colt's Special Revolver for Airline Pilots
80 Years Ago Today...
Mach 1 DC-8
Norm Mineta gone...
Old Runway Markings
Did the US military operate Spitfires during WW2?
Lindbergh's Atlantic crossing 95 years ago, today.
X-15 - The American Hypersonic Rocket Powered Aircraft Developed By North American
B-17 Bomber Detailed Crew Bailout Process Step-by-Step Walk through...
The Lake Mead B-29...
Spitfire & Hurricane Memorial Museum
A4 Skyhawk Documentary | The history of Douglas A 4 Skyhawk...
Vickers VC10 - the lost flagship...
B-29 FIFI Arrival Flight...
WWII Factories documentary
JetStar
The Great Escape
The Sky Below Me, The Crowd Above Me...
When Piper Built a Warbird…
Bockscar
FIFI
Enola Gay co-pilot’s logbook recording first A-bomb up for auction...
Helihome: The Insane 1970's Flying Camper...
DOUGLAS DC-8 JETLINER - Southern California Enters the Jet Age!
The XF-11...
Vultee XP-54 "Swoose Goose"
WWII aviation magazine advertisements
B17 manufacturing pic LGB 1940s
On this day (9/5/1957)
Corsair Walkaround Jim Tobul Oshkosh 2022...
P-38 'Glacier Girl' + TNMA P-47s Flight Demo @ Middlesboro, KY 11-15-2012...
XB-51...
XP-79 – The Flying Chainsaw...