In this video, we explore an airplane model factory in Southern China, focusing on the detailed processes of polishing metal, ...

Die-cast airplane models are highly detailed and accurate metal alloy replicas of real aircraft, popular among aviation enthusiasts for their craftsmanship and historical significance since their ...

Madras, Oregon, is home to a remarkable airport-one without fences or gates-where one of the largest and most active private aircraft collections in the United States resides: the Erickson Aircraft ...

EL RENO, Okla. (KFOR) — If you ask airplane collector Tony Caldwell, the era between the World Wars, the 1920s to the early 1940s, is the best for aviation history. He argued, "I think this era has ...

Click to open image viewer. [NASM-9A16192] Ray Stits posed beside his Stits SA-2 Sky Baby (r/n N5K). CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection consists of 20.6 cubic feet ...

Check out a new book of paper airplanes inspired by the Smithsonian’s collections Michael D. Hulslander A paper airplane and its inspiration, the Mitchell U-2 Superwing. Plane image - Gift of Frank X.

Conservator Sarah Gilcrease from the Collections Division at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force inspects, catalogs and packs model aircraft from the Kettering Model Collection for shipping to ...

A new aviation museum in Juno Beach features about 1,000 model airplanes from a private collection. The museum's owner, David Marx, aims to preserve the history of commercial aviation's "glory days." ...