POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — An attention-grabbing, and at one-time worry-inducing, icon on Interstate 4 is getting its moment to shine in a new mini-documentary premiering on Saturday. “It was the I-4 ...

“Everything we do here has to meet five criteria,” Kermit says as he whisks me through a full-scale set of a B-17 bomber awaiting a pre-dawn departure for a raid over Germany. I step past a snowbank ...

The centennial of the first scheduled U.S. airline flight (1914, St. Petersburg to Tampa) was celebrated with plans for a historic re-enactment. A historically accurate replica of Tony Jannus's ...

AUBURNDALE | Troubled by waning attendance and image problems, Fantasy of Flight, an aviation-themed attraction boasting the world's largest private collection of vintage aircraft, closes to the ...

Halfway between Orlando and Tampa, there’s a place called Orlampa. So says the sign — Future Site of Downtown Orlampa — stuck in the middle of a large, flat field along Interstate 4. Rising as it does ...

When Kermit Weeks surveys the landscape beyond the Art Deco windows of his corporate office at Fantasy of Flight, he sees more than a flat expanse of grassland dotted by clumps of live oaks and mounds ...

What if you were a teenage boy, mad for airplanes and flying, and you realized that, thanks to an enterprising and generous grandfather, you would never have to work for a living? Taking it further, ...

The Wings Over Houston Airshow has selected Kermit Weeks to be this year’s recipient of the Lloyd P. Nolen Lifetime Achievement in Aviation Award. Weeks is a former aerobatics champion and aircraft ...