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It returns to Wichita next weekend, with two performances at Wichita Children’s Theatre, as well as an additional date Thursday at McPherson Opera House. When it returns, it will be a 90-minute ...
The Beechcraft Model 17 “Staggerwing” cuts an unusually sleek ... on the east side of Wichita, where modern-day Beechcraft are still produced, to check out that airplane, which was intended ...
They flew a Beechcraft C17R Staggerwing, created and manufactured ... together,” Winters said of the collaboration. The Zepick Modern Opera Competition is a biennial contest named for Dr ...
Behind Cizek, in his hangar in Amery, Wisconsin, sits his 1940 Beechcraft D17S Staggerwing ... system from the original 12-volt to a modern 28-volt so the airplane could carry modern radios ...
[Leonardo Correa Luna] The epitome of a cross-country flyer, the Beechcraft Bonanza ... stately Beech 18 and Beech 17 Staggerwing—but it was ready to enter the modern, post-World War II era ...
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 ...