Click to open image viewer. The Model 17, the first aircraft produced by the new Beech Aircraft Company of Wichita, Kansas, was a gamble for president Walter Beech and vice-president Ted Wells who was ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Opera Kansas is taking people back to the 1930s to showcase women who made a mark on the aviation industry, including Olive Ann Beech. “Staggerwing” focuses on the historic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Staggerwing” tells the story of Louise Thaden and Blanche Noyes, who competed and won the transcontinental Bendix Trophy Race in ...

Explore the history of the Beech UC 43 Traveler, better known as the Model 17 Staggerwing, through Randy Malmstrom's detailed walk around of NC50959 at the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum. Learn ...

Cast members of Staggerwing rehearse the opera about the flight of aviatrixes Louis Thaden and Blanche Noyes as they competed for the transcontinental 1936 Bendix Trophy Race. The shows will be will ...

Let us paint the scene for you. The year is 1944, and you're fresh back at home in the U.S. after a tour in the Pacific theater of World War II as an F4F Wildcat pilot during the Battles of the Coral ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Winners of the biennial Zepick Modern Opera Competition, Composer Lisa DeSpain and ...

Get a look at the Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing in this latest trailer for Microsoft Flight Simulator. The Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing is available now in the Microsoft Flight Simulator ...

When “Staggerwing” was performed by Opera Kansas as winner of the Zepick Modern Opera Competition in July 2021, its composers were certain it still had gas left in the tank. “People love the story,” ...