The B-52G was a designed to reduce the overall aircraft weight in an effort to improve performance.

The Battle of Kansas (aka "Battle of Wichita") was the nickname given to a project to build, modify and deliver large quantities of the world's most advanced bomber to the front-lines in the Pacific. The battle began as the first B-29 Superfortresses rolled off the production lines of the massive new Boeing factory on the prairies near Wichita, Kansas

Sept. 2, 2011 was the 100th Anniversary of Kansas Aviation.

The Cessna AT-17 Bobcat was a twin-engined advanced trainer aircraft designed and made in the United States, and used during World War II to bridge the gap between single-engine trainers and twin-engine combat aircraft.

Magnificent men in flying machines built air capital

The Cessna 350 Corvalis is a composite construction, single-engine, normally-aspirated, fixed-gear, low-wing general aviation aircraft built by Cessna Aircraft until the end of 2010.

The Beechcraft T-6 Texan II is a single-engined turboprop aircraft built by the Raytheon Aircraft Company (now Hawker Beechcraft).

Wichita, aviation reach out to each other

Stearman Aircraft Corporation was an aircraft manufacturer in Wichita, Kansas.

At the Lockheed Corp.'s headquarters in Burbank, Calif., they still remember the story about the middle-aged man who walked in one day in June 1955 to apply for work.