Northeast Yellowbirds were a common site in the New England skies in the late 1960s. Here are some photos taken by my father, a Northeast Airlines pilot, by me, and from sources I have found online. Northeast Airlines was a Boston-based carrier that merged with Delta in 1972. My father (also Dave Goodwin) started out as…
For aviation enthusiasts, the National Championship Air Races (aka the Reno Air Races) is a “bucket list” event. If you have already been there in the past; well, heck, go ahead and admit it (big ole grin), you know you are addicted and you know you want to come again. If you’ve never been, you absolutely “must…
Mention the name “Mad Dog” around a person who presently has, or who has ever had, any type of involvement in the aviation industry and that person’s reaction can cover any part of the scale, all the way from “A wonderful old aircraft” down to “Airborne junk!” Not being a pilot or an aircraft mechanic, my feelings about…
It was seventy years ago, yes, way back in 1945, when C.S. Robinson founded Robinson Airlines. Over the next 27 years, Robinson Airlines and the airline it later evolved into, Mohawk, flew the skies over the northeastern United States. Then, in April of 1972, forty-three years ago this month, Mohawk Airlines was absorbed by Allegheny…
Today’s passenger airliners sure are impressive, aren’t they? As a dedicated aircraft photo spotter, I am tremendously excited whenever I get an opportunity to focus one of the newer paxbirds, like a 380 or a Dreamliner, in my viewfinder. But I have to be totally honest with you; as pumped up as I get when I am able to…