Significant Planes at Oshkosh

The genesis story of the Experimental Aircraft Association is just what the name says, and for the first couple of decades of its life, those aircraft were largely conventional tube-and-fabric-covered wood and/or steel tube construction, planes that required minimum tools and builder skills. But the 1960s (and on into the ’70s) were an era of […]

The fastest civil airliner, the Mach 2.5 Concorde was a marvel of modern engineering when teams from France and Great Britain began developing it in the 1960s, when it was widely thought that supersonic airliners would be the norm soon. That future never happened, and with the brief exception of the Soviet Tupolev SST, Concorde […]