In short, airplanes were modernizing rapidly, and taking on a form that much more closely resembles the aircraft we see today—leaving behind the open-cockpit biplane designs that had dominated ...

Additional warbirds awaiting with open cockpits will include the Cold War sub-sonic marvel Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17; the beefy Fairchild C-123 Provider transport aircraft and the Cessna 337 ...