Stephan Wilkinson

Stephan Wilkinson is the co-author, with his long-ago college classmate Bruce McAllister, of the book Skygirls: A Photographic History of the Airline Stewardess.

U.S. Army veteran Zeb Harrington stands with his nearly complete Japanese Oscar. The prop spinner was once a stainless-steel mixing bowl. What will he build next? “I always thought a Spitfire was a beautiful plane,” he says.

This Rare Replica Warbird Is Made From Pizza Pans and Lawnmower Parts

A Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa could be the first homebuilt to be built of actual pieces of a home.

Technicians check out the first of two X-4s. It proved so unstable on its maiden flight, pilot Charles Tucker recalls he “got pretty drunk that night!”

The 98-Pound Weakling of Research Airplanes

Maligned and abandoned, the prototype Northrop X-4 Bantam gets a restoration after 65 years.

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