Veterans Air

Amazing how 4,872 miles can roll by without boredom. Meeting special people and continuing Veterans Air research recently spread out over 33 days....

Team me up with Liz Wilcox, creator of The Virtual Campground and TVC YouTube...and watch us go! Liz gave me eleven minutes. And I gave her the story of how Gracie, the Veterans Air Ground Transport RV, enhances and extends my research. Come watch...and bring popcorn....

Accepted an invitation to share Veterans Air Express history at Airliners International 2018 Convention in Washington DC this July. It's the World's Largest Airline Collectibles Show. What fun. And got to meet some non-sked aficionados, too....

Imagine being 95 years old and going back to High School. John Schaus did! Invited to address the students about “where I went and what I did in WWII." But the rest of the story is even better!! John has a special connection to Ramsey High School in...

Not in a million years in April 2015 when I began this research would I have imagined such a gathering and the opportunity to present our Fathers' story with them in the audience. Come meet second and third generation VAE families -- Chambers and Eason....

Non-sked researcher Alan Bender, an Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Professor, agrees to meet and share some of his long-time independent research into, and passion for, the non-sked era in which Veterans Air operated in 1945-1947. Alan bursts with incredible and myriad details -- and infectious enthusiasm. This was an amazing opportunity....

Thousands of land and air miles, days and weeks on the road, and terrific contact with folks who live and breath aviation. They shared insights into the history of the Non-sked air line era and showed honest interest in the Veterans Air story. Doesn't get much better than...

Elusive Veterans Air records are hopefully not nonexistent. The pursuit of new aviation sources and resources steeped in the non-sked air line era prompted a great journey in June & July 2018. Come see who was on the meet-and-learn-from list between Oregon and Washington DC....

EN ROUTE, a book published in 1993 by authors Lynn Johnson and Michael O'Leary, is a lovely, fascinating and well researched noteworthy collection of "label art from the Golden Age of air travel." Come read who recently gifted a copy of the book to me -- and why. ...

Take a photographic ride with me on the Veterans Air magic carpet. I love my Gracie and I love Gracie's daily demands while we travel cross country to visit our Veterans Air families. So far, we've logged almost 11,000 miles doing that...with lots more to come! ...

Jammed ten pounds in a five-pound bag...and still had more to share. But I sure had fun telling the Veterans Air Express story at NJ Aviation Hall of Fame last November. I was delighted (and pleasantly stunned) by Executive Director Shea Oakley's introduction. There's a YouTube in this post...

I am beyond honored to get better acquainted with the men and women who made my Dad's 1945 airline "happen" by meeting their family members. Come meet these very special people in a photo review of my second 2017 trip visiting Veterans Air Express families. This extraordinary RV trek...

Veterans Air Express Anna Tamburello was a pharmacist mate, then cryptographer before she became Anna Broughton, 63 years a military wife and an Alaskan tundra mom. Read about insights and photos netted last month when Gaye Lyn met Bob Broughton in Lexington, KY, and got new info this week...

Takes no time to fall happily into laughter, banter and sweet reminiscences when I'm with the "daughters Cowart." It's day 16 and 2,822 miles into my Veterans Air family RV trip. I've arrived in South Carolina, home of Angie and Joy, daughters of 1946 Veterans Air DC-4 Flight Engineer Thomas...

A spectacular batch of 1946 Veterans Air Line images and press clippings ignited lively conversation. I was in Florida to meet Craig Broughton and his wife Carol. And to learn more about Craig's dad, Richard Broughton, who was one of my Dad's DC-4 pilots for the UNRRA. Dick flew...