With Dolores Saulque snug in the cockpit of the World War II-era biplane, pilot Darryl Fisher offered his 88-year-old passenger some advice. “We won’t be able to talk while we’re in the air,” he said.
Reno, NEV. (News 4 & Fox 11) — Andddddd they're off! Senior veterans took the ride of a lifetime flying on a 1944 Stearman biplane this morning at Atlantic Aviation in Reno. This was the same plane ...
GALESBURG, Ill. — The world’s largest Stearman event — the National Stearman Fly-In — is happening in Galesburg this week, drawing pilots from across the globe for the 54th consecutive year. “We’ve ...
MALDEN, Mo. (KFVS) - Pilots who fly vintage World War II planes stopped in the Heartland for training. “It’s been amazing. People have driven up to two hours they said, because they heard we were ...
Six of the legendary Stearman aircraft flew over Naval Air Station Pensacola on Saturday to kick off the civilian flight demonstration for the 2019 Blue Angels Homecoming Air Show. The planes flew in ...
Esther Navarro in a Boeing Stearman biplane (Credit: Palmetto Subacute Care Center) A nonprofit that honors US military veterans is giving residents in Florida long-term communities a thrill in the ...
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — A 1942 WWII Boeing Stearman open cockpit bi-plane from the Capital Wing of the Commemorative Air Force will be available for "warbird rides" at the Lancaster Airshow in Lititz ...
Piston-engined biplanes sit in the flight line on a grass field at the ready. Sunlight glints off their fabric-covered wings. Grizzled pilots form a rough half circle around the air boss as he points ...
Ted Utt didn't want to land. The 96-year-old Army veteran soared 1,200 feet above Camarillo in the open-air passenger cockpit of a World War II-era Stearman biplane, wind tousling his hair, engine ...
TUCSON- Several seniors and veterans got a chance to fly the skies today at Ryan Airfield in Tucson, taking flight in a Boeing Stearman biplane. The flight is Offered by Ageless Aviation Dreams ...
DESTIN — From the ground, the little biplane flying along the beaches of Destin late Wednesday morning probably looked like nothing special to most people. But for 94-year-old Bob Neely, sitting as a ...