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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Trains to Planes in Rhode Island
The 2017 Rhode Island National Guard Open House and Air Show offered a “Trains to Planes” rail service to the air show venue, from a trio of easily accessible commuter rail stations. I took...
NORTHERN LIGHTNING 2017
You could easily miss its’ twenty three hundred acres, nine thousand foot runway and forty acres of ramp space when driving by on Interstate 90. We are referring to Volk Air National Guard Base...
My Trip to the Walt Ray Memorial
A Helicopter Trip to the Walt Ray Memorial By Ray Nixon May 2017 I walked into the unparalleled Hahn’s World of Surplus in North Las Vegas looking for a Nomex flight jacket and some...
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