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1 May, 2017

Looking Over The Edge

by Keith “Rosey” Rosenkranz Aviators who’ve been to “the edge of the envelope” definitely know the name “Chuck Yeager.” On Oct. 14, 1947, the legendary test pilot became the first person to fly supersonic,...
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30 Oct, 2016

T-BIRD BOMB BURST

BY GEN. MERRILL A. (TONY) MCPEAK , Del Rio could be the movie set of a West Texas border town. It’s windy, and the weather tends toward seasonal extremes. A large U.S. Air Force...
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14 Mar, 2016

KILLING TRAINS

By Ed Rasimus (Excerpted from When Thunder Rolled: An F-105 Pilot over North Vietnam) Our target for the day was a bridge at Bac Ninh on the northeast railroad. Ingress could be along the...
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26 Oct, 2015

FAREWELL FLIGHT

FAREWELL FLIGHT by Capt. William R. Tymczyszyn I hoped we’d fly together again someday, but I didn’t know just when. Then a sense of something special came over me, as I released the brakes...
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17 Aug, 2015

GORILLA – THE FIRST JET-POWERED PRIMATE

by William B.Scott At the dawn of the jet age, a small group of test pilots, engineers, technicians and maintenance troops secretly evaluated the Bell XP-59A, America’s first military jet, at the remote Materiel...
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16 Jun, 2015

B-52 STRIKE ON IRAQ

January 16, 1991; 1900 Hours: “We’re going!” That simple announcement from “Moondog,” our radar navigator, triggered a flurry of activity. We were going to war with Iraq. Jamming last-minute gear into our helmet bags...
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23 Mar, 2015

THE FIRST NIGHTHAWKS

by William B. Scott Depicting a symbolic nighthawk in flight and worn on a man’s suit lapel, it’s just a small, innocuous silver pin. But a red ruby in the hawk’s eye silently...

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Airshow / EAA / favorite / oshkosh

28 Jun, 2017

“Destination: Oshkosh, 2017″

What’s a girl to do? It’s another grey day in Indiana. The sun is not even trying to peek though and I want to go flying! I’m grounded. And I don’t have a pilot’s...

Airshow / fighters / military / U.S. Air Force

23 Jun, 2017

The 2017 Wings Over Wayne Airshow

Having served in the military I must say that I have never visited a ‘military town’ like Goldsboro in Wayne County, North Carolina. This town loves Seymour Johnson Air Force Base and the jet...

Air National Guard / Airshow / Helicopters / museums / New England / Rhode Island Army National Guard

23 Jun, 2017

Quonset Point RI 2017, and a Whole Lot More!

Quonset Point had an air show on May 20th and 21st in Rhode Island right on Narragansett Bay, and just a short drive from Newport. Some people will say it only had seven airplanes....

fighters / Fly-In / military / warbirds

21 Jun, 2017

Waukesha’s Gathering of Warbirds 2017

Waukesha County Airport (KUES), better known as Crites Field, lies approximately 26 miles to the West of General Mitchell International Airport (KMKE) and adjacent to I-94. It covers 543 acres and has two runways,...

Air National Guard / Airshow / demo teams / museums / Viet Nam / warbirds / World War II

16 Jun, 2017

The Other Jones Beach Air Show

Jones Beach, NY, had a big Memorial Day Air Show on Saturday, May 27th. Show Center was at the classic Memorial Tower, at the center of Jones Beach State Park on the ocean, south...

Helicopters / Marines / Special Aviation Events / U.S. Coast Guard / U.S. Navy

6 Jun, 2017

Another Great Day at Sea

New York Fleet Week 2017 “Another Great Day At Sea – Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush” was an excellent book by Geoff Dyer, that came out in 2014 and described in...

Airshow / Blue Angels / demo teams

2 Jun, 2017

Gearing Up For the 2017 New York Air Show

For the third consecutive year, the skies over New Windsor, New York will be ablaze with color and sound as the New York Air Show puts aloft a varied group of aerial performers. The...

Australia / bombers / World War II

31 May, 2017

75th Anniversary of the “Forgotten 18th Squadron”

Dion Makowski with Anne West They shall grow not old, As we that are left grow old, Age shall not weary them, Nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun,...

Civil aviation / post / Special Aviation Events / tribute

30 May, 2017

Remembering LZ 129, the Hindenburg and the Importance of Naval Air Station Lakehurst

On May 6, 2017, I attended the memorial service of the eightieth anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster at the spot where the Hindenburg crashed at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey. The weather was...

air force / Base Visits / europe / Exercises / fighters

27 May, 2017

Austrian Air Force Eurofighters Train in Northern Germany

The central European country of Austria is quite small, at nearly 83,000 square kilometers (or 32,000 square miles and roughly the size of the state of South Carolina); the possibility to train with its’ Eurofighters...