“Space the final frontier, these are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise…” During each episode of Star Trek, these are the words that are uttered by Captain James T. Kirk. Just a few years prior to this new and fascinating show, humankind made its first trip ever into space. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made the […]
Dream On
All it takes is a dream, willpower, and a drive to make the impossible possible. Most often, the greatest inventions started out as dreams about something with no technology to build upon. As time passes, technology grows and changes to the point that dreams can become a reality. Sure, there were balloons that floated in […]
Let’s Fly Kites
We all grew up on the ground, possibly not even getting on an airplane. Yet we were mesmerized by seeing various flying objects in the sky. Whether they were airplanes, hot air balloons, or a kite that the neighborhood kids were flying in view. Even right now, we could be thinking about taking our kids […]
New Year’s Sale
Welcome to a New Year’s sales event featuring parts from the following aircraft types: Beech Jet 400A Beechcraft Hawker 400XP Bombardier Challenger 600 Caravan 208 Cessna 340A/414A Cessna Conquest I/II Cheyenne 762/772/792/800 Citation 500/501/510/525/550/551/560/650 Falcon 10/20/50/100/200/900/2000 Gulfstream Astra SPX/G150/G200 Hawker 800A/800XP/1000A Jetstream 3112 King Air 90/100 Lear 31/35/40/45/55/60 Malibu Meridian Piper Mitsubishi 389/661/757 Piaggio P180 […]
A Wright Kind of Flight
It all began with a toy helicopter for Christmas for Wilber and Orville Wright. The boys played with it until it broke. Then they tried to make their own helicopter. Fascination soon took flight for the Wright Brothers. With that spark, nearly twenty years later, they started putting together the beginnings of successful air gliding. […]
“A Day That Will Live in Infamy”
The day had been peaceful, with sunshine and a breeze over Pearl Harbor. That would all change at 7:48 am in Hawaii on Sunday, December 7th, 1941. That morning sailors were just waking up and casually eating breakfast, running drill, and so many other different things. Unfortunately, that was not something that they would continue […]