Here’s a riddle: How many tires would there be in one place in Maine, if you gathered a half dozen aircraft and eighty vintage cars, motorcycles and trucks for an air and auto show? So far, so good? OK, now double the aircraft total, and triple the automobile total because you have to add […]
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Owls Head Transportation Museum’s “Rally” Warbirds
Posted by Ken Kula on October 6th, 2017
Posted in airshows, Bombers, Museums 
Tags: Boeing, Corsair, Curtiss Jenny, Flying Fortress, Mitchell, North American, Owls Head Transportation Museum, Vought 
Comments Off on Owls Head Transportation Museum’s “Rally” WarbirdsOwls Head Transportation Museum’s 2016 Wings and Wheels Rally!
Posted by Ken Kula on September 10th, 2016
The Owls Head Transportation Museum’s Wings and Wheels Spectacular was held on the first full weekend in August this year, on the museum grounds on the north side of the Maine’s Knox County Regional Airport . Featured were aircraft designs that spanned a full century of flight. These flying machines, coupled with a collection of automobiles […]
Posted in airshows, Museums Tags: Beech, Chance Vought, Curtiss, Dan Marcotte, Fokker, Grumman, Julia Clark, North American, Owls Head Transportation Museum, Rally, SPAD, Stearman, Texas Flying Lengends Museum, waco Comments Off on Owls Head Transportation Museum’s 2016 Wings and Wheels Rally!The Rally at the Owls Head Transport Museum
Posted by Ken Kula on August 12th, 2015
Tucked away on a closed runway that dates back to World War II, the Owls Head Transportation Museum resides in Rockland, Maine at the Knox County Regional Airport. Its mission “is to collect, preserve, exhibit and operate pre-1940 aircraft, ground vehicles, engines and related technologies significant to the evolution of transportation for the purpose of education.” […]
Posted in airshows, Bombers, Museums Tags: 1917 Gnome rotary engine, Aeronca, Aeronca KC, AT-6D, B-25, B-25J, Captain, castor oil, Cyclone, Dan Marcotte, Eddie Rickenbacker, Fokker, Jim Parker, Knox County Maine, Mark Murphy, Mustang, Nieuport 28C.1, North American, P-51D, Pitts S-2B, PT-17, Rockland Maine, Rolls Royce, Salto sailplane, SPAD XIIIc.i, Tri-State Warbird Museum, Ultimate 10-200, WACO UBF, Wings and Wheels Comments Off on The Rally at the Owls Head Transport MuseumAnnouncement on Reno Races
Posted by Joe Kates on January 5th, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE In a press conference to discuss the future of the National Championship Air Races, the Reno Air Racing Association (RARA) announced on Wednesday the formation of a Blue Ribbon ReviewPanel to study the event. The panel will examine any possible changes or modifications that could bemade to enhance the already high level […]
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