From the Planes You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of Department of Wingspan, we bring you the Curtiss XP-31 Swift.

We are staying in Chitown for four nights and doing all the downtown Chicago stuff (Science and Industry, Shedd, Field, maybe Adler, Navy Pier, Art Institute, etc). Any suggestions on where to stay? My wife has been looking at hotels downtown, but they are all $$$. I’m not opposed to staying farther out and parking…

Not just no, but hell no. I shrink up just looking at this photo.

From the Planes You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of Department of Wingspan, we bring you the Rockwell XFV-12.

I have a headache and the coffee isn’t helping. Today is my wife’s birthday. Friday is my 27th anniversary. Some people say you’re only as old as you feel. I prefer to say that you don’t have to feel as old as your are. That said, I feel old today.

Clicking the star to recommend a post just jumps me back to the top of the page. To all of you commented on today’s TDIAH post, thank you. Here is your star.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft was racing away from Jupiter following its seventh close pass of the planet when JunoCam snapped this image on May 19, 2017, from about 29,100 miles (46,900 kilometers) above the cloud tops. The spacecraft was over 65.9 degrees south latitude, with a lovely view of the south polar region of the…

In preparation for their demonstration at this year’s Paris Air Show, Boeing’s most advanced airliners took to the skies over Washington. Come for the dynamic takeoff and beautiful cinematography, stay for the disclaimer at the end.

Man who survived daredevil plunge over Niagara Falls in 2003 dies while attempting it a second time.

Welcome to This Date in Aviation History, getting you caught up on milestones, important historical events and people in aviation from June 14 through June 16.

As part of our epic driving vacation this year, my father suggested that we swing through the Flint Hills to see the last remaining swath of tallgrass prairie. We’d be coming from Hannibal, MO, and after an earlier stop in St. Louis to see some of the Lewis & Clark stuff, seeing pristine prairie might be interesting.…

On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress passed the Flag Resolution which stated: “Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.”