The first purpose-built #AircraftCarrier was commissioned on #ThisDayInHistory in 1922. #Hōshō of the Imperial Japanese Navy was small compared to later carriers, meant to carry #biplanes, but pioneered many aspects of the type. Her limited combat use helped her to survive #WWII.

Wanted to get in some fun (and extreme) biplane aerobatics tonight in the #XPlane #flightsim Waco, but got a little too crazy and augered into the ground.

What followed is the longest "ride" I have taken in an X-Plane crash, it went on for-EVER. This is just a quick snip from it. I eventually had to quit the sim to make it stop.

But the Waco is built tough and stayed together despite the pounding.

#avgeeks #biplanes #Ouch

A new #OregonLife Part 3 Kelch Aviation Museum
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/mxCBaxZ_hkg
#ButlerManufacturing Butler started building grain bins and soared into aircraft construction,
heartwarming tale of a son on a mission to find the very plane his parents once flew.#Pietenpol
#biplanes #PilotStories
#OregonLife Part 2 of this thrilling episode as #AmiEckardLee the dynamic Creative Development Director at the #kelchaviationmuseum
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/qsjHwHx4_Ag?si
#biplanes #Aviation #Producer #frankgcaruso

This hour's random desktop background on my #MacbookPro is this great shot (not mine) of Addison Pemberton's vintage Speedmail biplane.

If you ever find yourself near Felts Field in #Spokane, WA, look up the Pembertons and their incredible restoration shop. I was told long ago that visitors are welcome.

I wrote an "In Depth" article for Flying Magazine on this crew. They are awesome.

https://www.flyingmag.com/in-depth-addison-ryan-pemberton

#avgeeks #aviation #vintage #airplanes #biplanes #flying #AirMail

Wingwalkers

Two wingwalkers during a display at the Bournemouth Air Festival in 2011. Found In: Bournemouth Air Festival

Creative Splurges Daily Photo
Two Aerial Photographs, ca. 1918

"Taken from an Aeroplane" (top) and "The Scouts" (bottom) …

_The Evening Post_, 1 Feb 1924:
                     THE FLYING COURSE
                    BOMBING FORMATION
  (BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
                               CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.
  A squadron of six #aeroplanes took an hour’s cruise over #Christchurch and the suburbs to-day, in perfect weather, covering seventy miles. Five Avros flew in “V” bombing formation, led by Captain P. Musgrove, while a Bristol fighter, flown by Captain M. C. M‘Gregor, M.C., D.F.C., provided an escort, and did occasional stunts en route. The flight was the first of the kind in New Zealand.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240201.2.115
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #Aircraft #Biplanes #Avro #Bombers

My little desk airport has a big visitor today. Parked on the “ramp” outside the Ryan Flying Co. hangar is the “World’s Largest 1931 Stearman” in Texaco livery.

#avgeeks #aviation #airplanes #pilotlife #flying #biplanes #Stearman #vintage #aircraft #EAA