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,” ...

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 ...

On this day in aviation history, 93 years ago (November 4, 1932), the first flight of the Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing took place. The Model 17 was an American-built civilian/executive transport ...

Beech UC-43 Traveler (Model 17 Staggerwing). The Model 17 was initially introduced in 1933 as a civil aircraft and became a very popular racer (but apparently banned after 1970 out of safety concerns) ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1973, representatives of the staggerwing club approached Beech Aircraft chairwoman Olive Ann Beech with a plan: They wanted to create a museum dedicated to her company’s Model 17 Staggerwing, an ...

Lloyd Cizek points at his chest. "I had a little electrical problem, so they had to install an auxiliary power unit," he says, joking about his cardiac pacemaker. Cizek retired as a Northwest Airlines ...

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 ...