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I was at one of the park district pools in Arlington Heights, IL this early evening which is fairly close to KORD (about a 20-30 minute drive by car). At roughly about 5:47pm or 5:48pm everybody heard 5-7 loud BANGS in rapid succession and everybody at the pool looked up. I looked up and saw...

I just learned about this plane crash a few minutes ago. I have personally met Vlado Lenoch a handful of times over the past 2 decades and even got to help him push "Moonbeam McSwine" (another P-51D) out to the taxiway at the Lake In the Hills Airshow (3CK) nearly 20 years ago. Very sad to see...

I was at Airventure on Saturday and and saw a couple of emergency vehicles going down towards rwy 36. Pulled out my scanner and it stopped on 121.5 with the unmistakable warble of an ELT. Uh oh. Walked down and snapped this picture. Plane caught a crosswind gust and pilot lost control according...

I work in Oakbrook, IL, which is a subburb of Chicago. It is not far from KORD and KMDW. Anyway as I was walking out of my building last night at 6pm, I heard a single engine airplane over ahead. It was dark and it was snowing. The airplane was clearly scud running to the northeast, maybe at 600...