The Second World War was still raging in Europe and the Pacific on August 1, 1943, when Marine Fighter Squadron VMF-323, the “Death Rattlers” were commissioned at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Cherry Point in North Carolina. Arriving at...
Westover Air Reserve Base Fetes 75 Years of Operations The sky over western Massachusetts, at the foot of the Berkshires, was filled with the sights and sounds of the Great New England Air Show in mid May, 2015. The...
There exists a multitude of ways to measure the wealth of a nation. Gross domestic product is probably the most common. Land mass and area could be another. Perhaps even the gold a country keeps. However, of all the...
When in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, during EAA’s AirVenture, you are sure to meet some incredible people! For one week, you are surrounded by five hundred thousand new best friends from around the globe at aviations’ greatest celebration, EAA AirVenture. For...
I had the great honor and priviledge of having a flight with the GEICO Skytypers on May 14, 2015 at The Great New England Airshow at Westover ARB. It was arranged by the terrific Westover ARB Public Affairs Office....
It’s often called “Four acres of American Sovereignty”, an American Aircraft Carrier can brings many different emotions to many different people and governments around the world, when one shows up offshore of a foreign country. Responding to emergencies such...
An amazing salute to a rapidly disappearing group of living military veterans occurred on Friday May 8, 2015, when the world witnessed the Arsenal of Democracy: World War II Victory Capitol Flyover (henceforth known here as the “Flyover”). As...
I was checking into the hotel and the pretty lady behind the counter asked what I was doing in town? I told her I was here for the airshow. She had no clue there was an airshow this weekend....
Setting the Record Straight By Francis Gary Powers, Jr. May 1, 2015 55th Anniversary of the U-2 Incident 55 years after my father was shot down over the former Soviet Union I still find it interesting that people who...
The movie “Top Gun” made the F-14 Tomcat famous to most everyone. In 1997, after Naval Air Station Miramar was transferred to the United States Marine Corps, all F-14 Tomcats were moved to the East Coast, to NAS Oceana....
A pair of audacious explorers are redefining some long-held assumptions about the efficiency and endurance of airplanes. Swiss entrepreneurs Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg have reached the midpoint of the first “around the world flight without fuel”, powered only...
Yannick Diry is an “Engineer”, who watches his jets carefully. In America he would be a simple “A&P Mechanic”, when you are from Europe, you are an “Engineer”. As he explains it, it’s something more than being a mechanic....
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