Mark Spoor
NASA’s Supersonic X-59 Readying For Structural Testing
Experimental aircraft is expected to be shipped to Lockheed Martin’s facility in Fort Worth, Texas by year’s end.
Aviation Community Helping Victims of Hurricane Ida
We’ve all seen the reports of the devastation that’s being caused by Hurricane Ida. Homes are devastated, hundreds of thousands are without power, and worse. As so often happens during these types of disasters, members of the aviation community have already started to pitch in or stand by at the ready, doing whatever they can […]
WWII Paratrooper Stages Jump on 100th Birthday
For most people, a 100th birthday celebration might include a gathering of friends and family, some music, and maybe a slice or two of cake. Tom Rice took things a little further. Rice, who served as a paratrooper in World War II, celebrated passing the century mark by jumping from the Commemorative Air Force’s C-53D […]
Alaska Turbine Otter Tour Video Goes Viral Thanks to Co-Star
Cara Siciliano didn’t have TikTok on her phone until just before she went on a floatplane tour—in a de Havilland DHC-3 Turbine Otter—from Homer, Alaska, to Brooks Camp at Katmai National Park in King Salmon about three weeks ago. “I only had Facebook and Instagram,” she said. “My friends kept sending me these videos and […]