In this video, we explore an airplane model factory in Southern China, focusing on the detailed processes of polishing metal, ...

Die-cast airplane collecting is a popular hobby for aviation enthusiasts, involving highly detailed metal replicas of real aircraft valued for their accuracy and historical significance. Originating ...

Madras, Oregon, is home to a remarkable airport-one without fences or gates-where one of the largest and most active private aircraft collections in the United States resides: the Erickson Aircraft ...

Jack Erickson is an aviation icon. The founder of Erickson Aviation transformed the Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane into the Erickson Aircrane, a huge heavy-lift helicopter that has become a heralded platform ...

Click to open image viewer. [NASM-9A16192] Ray Stits posed beside his Stits SA-2 Sky Baby (r/n N5K). CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection consists of 20.6 cubic feet ...

When the USS Midway was a working aircraft carrier, it sometimes got visited by planes like the C-2A Greyhound ferrying people and supplies out to sea, and then back to land. Now the Midway, a popular ...

Check out a new book of paper airplanes inspired by the Smithsonian’s collections Michael D. Hulslander A paper airplane and its inspiration, the Mitchell U-2 Superwing. Plane image - Gift of Frank X.

Conservator Sarah Gilcrease from the Collections Division at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force inspects, catalogs and packs model aircraft from the Kettering Model Collection for shipping to ...

Dietrich Mateschitz, the creator of the energy drink Red Bull, has money. Lots of it. His decision to spend some of it restoring and operating a collection of airplanes involved a 58-year-old named ...

Looking to expand its activities for aviation enthusiasts, Snohomish County is offering another historic airplane group hangar space at Paine Field. Possibly joining Paul Allen’s Flying Heritage ...