John’s Next Flight

Crossing America

Arriving Friday in Bangor we were greeted by friends who had tracked our trip and insisted we accompany them to ...

Crossing the Atlantic

Three weather gods decide the fate of any vintage, unpressurized aircraft making an Atlantic crossing. One resides in and around ...

July 15

After bidding farewell to old and new friends at the Flying Legends Air Show, today we briefed a new passenger ...

July 16

Our Prestwick hotel remains trapped in WWII Scotland under rationing. A nuanced expression of Scottish frugality, the hot water tap ...

Berlin

Against all odds, we mustered fourteen aircraft for the penultimate flight of Berlin Airlift 70, our trip to Berlin. At ...

Candy Bomber

I wasn’t sure how Germany and Germans would react to a D-Day Squadron trying to morph into a recreation of ...

Duxford

Many people familiar with HFF also are familiar with Duxford, a WWII air field preserved in 1940s style. The American ...

D-Day Minus 1, The Channel Crossing

On the last day of the Duxford shows, we launched a streaming take-off into a formation of over twenty C-47s ...

D-Day

In the brief, the motorways were to close at 6 a.m. Driving in the dark, our motorway access point was ...

May 27

Some of the Squadron left for Duxford in acceptable conditions. We discussed the possibility but decided (a benevolent dictatorship) this ...