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Aviation Features

Aviation Features are "special edition", unique and hard to find aviation feature stories, articles and interviews. Selected content examples such as the B-1B Lancer, Kansas Air National Guard 184th Bomb Wing History, Wichita Aviation History Photo Archives, AOPA Pilot Photo Tips, FBO Light Jet Review, the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, Women In Aviation and much more!

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Recent Special Aviation Features

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (formerly The EAA Annual Convention and Fly-In) is America's largest annual gathering of aviation enthusiasts held each summer at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States.

Wichita, the Next Detroit of Aviation?

Even if we don’t discuss the economics of opportunity costs, that is who more productively can determine how to invest dollars: government or private individuals, government spending can always be shown to be a depletion of resources in an economy.

The Tanker Deal: Naming the Real Culprit!

The Tanker Deal: Naming the Real Culprit!

Boeing KC-X

KC-X is the name of the United States Air Force program to procure its next-generation aerial refueling tanker aircraft. This aircraft is intended to replace some of the older Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers.

The Decline of the Aviation Industry

The aviation industry has been in a decline since 1978 and unless we do something about the causes, we can expect to see it in a death spiral.

Memorial Day

Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May (May 31 in 2010). Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. soldiers who died while in the military service.

Armed Forces Day "United in Strength" Saturday, May 15, 2010

On August 31, 1949, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson announced the creation of an Armed Forces Day to replace separate Army, Navy and Air Force Days. The single-day celebration stemmed from the unification of the Armed Forces under one department -- the Department of Defense.

Boeing X-37

The Boeing X-37 Advanced Technology Demonstrator is an unpiloted demonstration spaceplane that is intended to test future spaceflight technologies while in orbit and during atmospheric reentry.

Reporting on Aviation in the Air Capital: Wichita Eagle Writer Reflects on Covering Wichita's Dynamic Industry."

There's absolutely no better place on earth to report and write about aviation than in Wichita, the Air Capital of the World. Wichita's aviation pioneers, Walter Beech, Clyde Cessna, Bill Lear, Lloyd Stearman and others, spawned an industry key to Wichita's economic heartbeat.

Air National Guard

The Air National Guard (ANG), often referred to as the Air Guard, is the air force militia organized by each of the fifty U.S. states, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the territories of Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia of the United States.


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