June 1942: A Rough Month for the FAN
byUp until about April, 1942, the Fuerza Aérea Nicaragüense -FAN- (Nicaraguan Air Force) had experienced only a relatively small number of accidents. However, with…
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Access to Airports and Air Bases
byOne of the biggest obstacles that the aero-historians, spotters and avgeeks find regarding access to data and photography of aircraft in general, is precisely…
A Million Dollars
byThe old joke goes: How do you get a million dollars in the airline business? The answer: Start with ten million! Governments, wanting “flag…
Being a Good Witness
byConsider this for a moment: Suppose there had been one -just one- trained, dedicated, disciplined observer, on the ground the day that the very…
An Aeronca epic
byThe vast majority of the historical events documented in this website involve stout, built-for-purpose aircraft that most of us recognize and, even though often…
The Vermelinho
byA first shipment of Waco biplanes reached Brazil in 1932, in the form of the small, open cockpit CSO model. This was just in…
Dastardly Plot
byAirplanes have been used during formal peacetime in terrorist attacks. Even if the scale was small, some dramatic incident had the potential to be…