On this day in 1943 1st Lieutenant Charles Blakesly Hall, United States Army Air Corps, 99th Fighter Squadron, becomes the first member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen to shoot down an enemy aircraft. Hall shot down the Focke-Wulf Fw-190, the most capable German fighter aircraft at the time, flying a Read More...
First Un-powered Flight of Bell X-2, June 27, 1952
First un-powered flight of the Bell X-2, June 27, 1952. Read more about this flight at This Day in Aviation. Read More...
Thunder of Niagara 2018 Air Show
The museum booth at the Thunder of Niagara Air Show, June 8 -10, 2018, was a popular spot for air show visitors with the Bell Rocket Belt and Bell Lunar Ascent Stage Engine. We shared a booth with our friends from Moog and the Aero Club of Buffalo. [easyrotator]erc_1_1530199424[/easyrotator] Read More...
WNY Hardware on NASA InSight Mars Mission
NASA's latest mission to Mars, InSight, is scheduled for launch Saturday, May 5th. The second stage of the Atlas V launch vehicle is steered by electromechanical actuators designed and built by the Moog Space and Defense Group right here in East Aurora. This continues a long history of Western New Read More...
78th Anniversary of the Curtiss C-46 Commando’s First Flight
March 26th marks the 78th anniversary of the first flight of the Curtiss C-46 Commando, at the time the largest twin engine aircraft in the world. Over 3,000 C-46 aircraft were eventually built in the Curtiss-Wright plant on Cayuga Road in Buffalo, New York. Once it arrived in sufficient numbers, Read More...
March 12, 1907 – AEA Redwing Launches Curtiss Legacy
March 12th marked 110 years since the first flight of the Aerial Experiment Association (AEA) "Red Wing" on Keuka Lake in Hammondsport, NY. Glenn Curtiss was one of five members of the AEA (which also included Alexander Graham Bell) and the Red Wing set the stage for the tens of thousands of Curtiss Read More...
