On Wednesday, August 11th, 1954, a tired looking and disheveled Dieter Zwillingsbiber, wearing the same overcoat as he did when he was captured in 1945, was shoved out of a drab green army van in the town of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern…

SOPs, checklists and emergency procedures cannot prepare an arachnophobic jet team pilot for the eventuality of a big, hairy, scary tarantula dangling over his lap during a five-plane, line-abreast roll…

Allnutt had crossed the Potomac River to Washington's Dulles airport to watch as Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) made one last eye-popping and glorious flight aboard NASA's gleaming and massive 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) from the Shuttle Landing Facility …

Todd Lemieux is a pilot with and a member of the Board of Directors of Vintage Wings of Canada. His boundless energy, infused with a refreshing Western can-do spirit and a heavy dose of Saskatchewan farm-boy, binder twine, ..

There are many things that make up the recipe for the heady cocktail that is powered or unpowered flight – history, technology, speed, brotherhood or perhaps the extreme test of human reflex …

Being in my seventh decade, and comfortable living at the trailing edge of technology, I was somewhat slow to sign up for a Twitter Account and become a card-carrying member of the Twitter Generation,

A truly unique event takes place in Reno, Nevada, every September – the National Championship Air Races. This gathering of pilots, aircraft, crews and crowds are all part of the fastest motor sport in the world. ..

There are many payoffs from writing this weekly news and history column known as Vintage News—the pure joy of learning about our remarkably varied and fascinating aviation heritage; the pride in capturing stories …

Here's the scene. A couple of us 60 year-olds are sitting in a food court in some nameless mall, just starting in on their double double coffees and hot breakfast sandwich on a biscuit, the wife unwrapping a cinnamon bagel,…

In 1944, a slow-moving, rust-stained freighter, perhaps of the Empire class, braved the cold, dark and U-boat infested waters of the North Atlantic Ocean amongst dozens of other ships, …

Over the years, I periodically and repeatedly came across two entirely different series of photographs, taken 45 years apart. The first group was taken in 1950 by famed LIFE magazine photographer Loomis Dean…

Arguably the most beautiful biplanes ever built [By the British - Ed.] and the most famous aircraft serving with Commonwealth forces between the wars were the classic silver Hawker biplanes. …

I’m not sure exactly when it all began—this fascination for airplanes. Especially the vintage ones. Sure, as kids we all loved airplanes at one time

Military pilots the world over study the extreme art of flying and fighting their aircraft to the absolute maximum of their capabilities. Competition is the lifeblood of the Canadian Air Force pilot—to be the best,…

During the First World War, there were three Canadian-born Royal Flying Corps recipients of the Victoria Cross. All three of them survived the actions for which ….

Sixty-five to seventy years ago, an entire generation of young, virile men and strapping naive boys would forgo the futures they were planning for to join the fight against tyranny around the world..

On August 14th, 2010, there was an invasion of Vintage Wings of Canada from veterans of the Burma theatre of operations during the Second World War. Three successive waves of dry land…

It was a typically hot sunny day with light winds over the eastern Mediterranean on the early afternoon of August the 9th, 1974. United Nations flight 51 chugged its way along the centre line of airway..

Ask just about anyone born before 1980, who was the first person in the world to break the sound barrier and you will be answered quickly with “Chuck Yeager!” In fact, Chuck Yeager has been immortalized best …

On September 23, 1953, a little remembered but near-tragic incident took place on the high seas. As one of the 42 pilots involved in this terrifying event, it remains strong in my memory. ..