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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Stealthy Sighting at MCAS Miramar
Lockheed Skunk Works’ YF-117A Nighthawk prototype first flew on June 18, 1981. Evidently it became operational in 1983, and was publically displayed for the first time on April 21, 1990 at a small event...
Mid-Summer Spotting Part #2 A Recent Look at the Freighter Traffic at Chicago O’Hare Airport.
We continue our look into a recent spotting trip to Chicago O’Hare International Airport with a closer look at pure freighter traffic. The downturn in traffic on the passenger side has been very evident...
Our Dassault Mirage Scrapbook
Originally designed as a single seat fighter with a secondary bomber role, the French Dassault Mirage family of aircraft was expanded to include advanced fighter-interceptors and pure bomber variants. A pair of these bomber...
Mid-Summer Spotting Part #1: A Recent Look at the Widebody Traffic at Chicago O’Hare Airport.
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic continues to affect air traffic and the airline industry globally. Air Travel is slowly recovering with most airlines adding flights and putting aircraft back into service, but there is a...
Retired and Vanished Airlines and Airliners, Part 2
Here’s a second collection of older airliners, liveries and companies that no longer exist. Airliners have been retired, color schemes changes, and companies either merged or ceased operations. Sometimes, all three conditions have been...
Mountain Medic
On August 3rd, Golf Company, 7-158th General Support Aviation Battalion, descended upon Fort Carson, Colorado, in UH-60L Blackhawks to participate in a month-long training exercise, dubbed ‘Mountain Medic’. Several other 7-158th GSAB companies participated,...
Random Aviation Photos #7
A Northwest Airlines Boeing B-757-200 series jetliner approaches Washington D. C. ‘s Reagan National Airport. Grumman A-6E TRAM at Manchester, New Hampshire. Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King, ready to be mothballed at AMARC. F-15A Eagle...
The B-52 Park at Orlando’s International Airport
Ask yourself, how many times have you been through Orlando International Airport (KMCO)? Now, how many of you have seen or visited the B-52 Memorial Park? Next time you are heading into or out...
Looking Back: The 2002 NAS Norfolk Air Show
Continuing on a theme introduced a month ago; this is the second installment of photographs from airshows that I attended prior to the age of digital photography. I am not proceeding in any particular...
Chasing The Dream
The one-of-a-kind Antonov AN-225 Mriya (which translated means Dream) is a super-sized cargo transport aircraft. A second, partly-completed airframe was known to exist, and every once in a while a rumor surfaces that it...
The 2020 New York International “Drive In” Air Show
Photos by the author, Bob Finch, Howard German and Kevin Burke Due to continuing Covid-19 concerns, the August 29-30, 2020 New York International Air Show moved from its usual show site for the past...
NORTHERN LIGHTNING 2020
There is a tremendous amount of scheduling and logistics that goes into planning for the now annual Northern Lightning exercise held at the Volk Field CRTC (Combat Readiness and Training Center) and Hardwood Firing...
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