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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 / USAF Thunderbirds

16 Sep, 2017

Thunderbirds Roar Over the Atlantic City Boardwalk in 2017

America’s Ambassadors in Blue, The United States Air Force Thunderbirds, arrived in New Jersey for Thunder Over The Boardwalk ahead of a rare North American celestial event. On Monday, August 21, 2017, the team...

Airshow / New England / Special Events

15 Sep, 2017

The Hidden Gem of the Narragansett Beach RI Air Show

The 2017 Rhode Island National Guard Open House Air Show was held during the weekend of May 20-21st – a Saturday and Sunday event. A lesser-known preamble to the show is a gem of...

Air National Guard / bombers / fighters / Liasion Aircraft / Medical transport / Red Flag / Trainers / Transports / U.S. Air Force / warbirds

13 Sep, 2017

The U.S. Air Force is Seventy Years Old

Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird The United States Air Force will celebrate the seventieth anniversary of its founding on September 18, 2017. Seventy years of aviation history is hard to imagine, there is no way we could...

Airshow / Blue Angels / bombers / demo teams / EAA / museums / Special Aviation Events

10 Sep, 2017

My 2017 Pilgrimage

To some it is called AirVenture, others refer to it as EAA, for a few it is just plain Oshkosh. No matter what you refer to it as, to the Aviation Enthusiast it can...

Base Visits / U.S. Coast Guard

8 Sep, 2017

U.S. Coast Guard – Florida

HC-144A tail number 2308 (c/n C179) shares the ramp at Air Station Miami with MH-65D tail number 6606 (c/n 6801) on August 31, 2008. The Dolphin is one of five produced by the Coast...

Exercises / Red Flag / U.S. Air Force

4 Sep, 2017

Red Flag 17-3 Report

The first of two summer Red Flag exercises was held at Nellis Air Force Base in the Nevada desert from July 10th to 28th. This iteration of Flag (RF 17-3) is the one RF...

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NASA's 2017 Great Solar Eclipse Programs

3 Sep, 2017

NASA WB-57Fs Track 2017’s Great Solar Eclipse

NASA WB-57F with payload, Credit: NASA’s Johnson Space Center/Norah Moran A high-flying pair of NASA-operated WB-57Fs flew in perfect formation with the sun and moon for close to seven minutes of total eclipse, during the...

Helicopters / military / Search and Rescue

31 Aug, 2017

Aviation Assets Bring Aid to the Houston Area After Harvey’s Floods

U.S. Coast Guard MH-65D Dolphin Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the city of New Orleans, Louisiana in late August of 2005, serves as a benchmark to compare responses to natural disasters in the United States....

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28 Aug, 2017

B-29 Superfortress: An Aircraft Ahead of its Time at the Right Time!

By George A. Haloulakos, MBA, CFA The Business Thinker – The Knowledge Magazine; Aug 6/9, 2017; www.businessthinker.com George A. Haloulakos, CFA, is a university instructor, author and entrepreneur [DBA Spartan Research and Consulting]. His...

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military / Special Color Schemes

22 Aug, 2017

European Anniversary Markings, 2017

Peter Boschert has filed a series of articles about aviation events in Europe this year. Many of his photos of specially marked aircraft show the highlights of notable anniversaries that non-standard artwork commemorates. We’ve captioned...