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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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Air National Guard / Airshow / fighters / military / Transports / warbirds

23 Sep, 2018

More Photography From the 2018 Rhode Island National Guard Open House Air Show

The name is rather long – The 2018 Rhode Island National Guard Open House Air Show. The aerial presentations during the show were visually stunning and sounded thunderous, with plenty of jets and high...

Airshow / Aviation History / Civil aviation / EAA

20 Sep, 2018

Vintage AirVenture Adventure 2018

This article was first run in our sister digital aviation magazine CivilAviationWorld.com The 2018 EAA AirVenture Oshkosh attracted hundreds of “old” airplanes; many gravitated towards the EAA’s Vintage Aircraft Association, located just south of...

Exercises / Helicopters / military / Parachute Competition

17 Sep, 2018

Leapfest 2018

All photos by Philip P. Giordano/PhilGPhoto.com, who filed this report for Photorecon.net… I spent part of my Sunday morning in the back seat of a Black Hawk helicopter shooting air-to-air photographs at Leapfest, the...

General Aviation / Helicopters

15 Sep, 2018

HAI Helo-Expo 2018

The Helicopter Association International’s yearly convention (HAI Heli-Expo 2018) was held during the last week in February at the Las Vegas, Nevada Convention Center. Over 17,000 attendees and 700 companies alighted in Las Vegas,...

air force / Air National Guard / Boeing / military / navy / U.S. Air Force / U.S. Marines / U.S. Navy

12 Sep, 2018

Year of the Tanker

One of the main themes of AirVenture 2018 was a salute to the often over looked Aerial Refueler better known as the Tanker. EAA assembled an impressive array of front line United States...

Airshow / Aviation History / bombers / Civil aviation / fighters / museums / warbirds

9 Sep, 2018

Geneseo Airshow 2018, The Greatest Show on Turf

I am proud to bring you my other hometown area airshow from Western New York. The proper name of it is the National Warplane Museum Airshow, the Greatest Show on Turf. I call her...

Air Transports / Airliners / Civil aviation

5 Sep, 2018

Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport

“Easy Come, Easy Go” has long been an advertising motto of BWI Marshall Airport. Located south of Baltimore and along the Interstate 95 Corridor, typical customers of the airport come from Pennsylvania, Delaware, West...

air force / Air Transports / Base Visits / europe / fighters / military / tanker ride / Transports

3 Sep, 2018

Frisian Flag April 2018, Leeuwarden AB/Netherlands and EART 2018

The 2018 edition of Frisian Flag was conducted between April 9th to April 20th, 2018 at Leeuwarden AB in the North of the Netherlands. The participating refueling aircraft were stationed at the NATO...

Airshow / Aviation History / Civil aviation / demo teams / EAA / Fly-In / Formation Flying / friends / General Aviation / NASA / oshkosh / Special Aviation Events / warbirds / Yearly Review

28 Aug, 2018

First Look at What I Saw at the EAA’s 2018 AirVenture in Oshkosh

I got to spend the better part of three and a half days at the EAA’s 2018 AirVenture Oshkosh aviation extravaganza, and even though there were plenty of “shiny things” to chase after with...

Air National Guard / Airshow / U.S. Air Force / U.S. Navy

22 Aug, 2018

MY HOME TOWN AIRSHOW

My hometown of Milwaukee Wisconsin has held a free airshow along the lakefront for the past several years. This year’s airshow was held on July 20th and 21st and is always held over...