A few days ago I received a message from a reader (Jim Davis) who wanted to know if I might be able to provide information regarding a short newsreel that he had come across:

I have a short film clip … silent … black and white … it shows a large single-engined monoplane and biplane and [...]

The second installment of the monthly blog run-down Military History Carnival has turned up a recent and relevant aviation-related post from the collaborative East Asian history blog Frog in a Well. In it, Alan Baumler ponders the question, “How air-minded was China?” and offers some background information concerning the role of airplanes and air power [...]

[Note: On 4/2/07 I removed the Cyrillic characters "Аэро-стихи" from the title above after discovering that they made it impossible to locate or link to the text of the post using the built-in site search engine. You should now have access to the translation and original text.]
From the very beginning of their Campaign to [...]

It really is amazing what you can find on the Internet. While trolling YouTube a couple of days ago in search of aviation videos for a project on the history of flight culture, I discovered that someone has posted a documentary clip of the ANT-20 Maxim Gorky. The largest plane in the world when it [...]