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 MRE’s for my aviation survival...
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Memorial Day Action Over Jones Beach, New York
Since its inception thirteen years ago, setting new attendance records has been the annual norm for the Jones Beach, NY Bethpage Air Show. Sponsored by The Bethpage Federal Credit Union, the show has taken place every Memorial Day Weekend...
The Murphy’s Memorial Day Weekend 2015 Formation Clinic
Over the Memorial Day weekend I had the good fortune of being invited out to Murphy’s Landing Strip in Upstate New York for a formation clinic. The event was hosted by Dave, Lois, and Mark Murphy owner/operators of the...
A National Treasure – Memorial Day, 2015
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...
Memphis Belle On Memorial Day
The early morning fog is thick, heavy and low hanging. It blankets the fields in a gray mist dense enough to block the early morning sun as it creeps over the eastern horizon. The fog touches everything, and when...
Memorial Day and Arlington Cemetery
This isn’t a holiday that’s always been here. The first Memorial Day was conducted at Arlington National Cemetery on May 30, 1929. The cemetery was built on the estate of General Robert E. Lee after the Yankees stole it...
A Visit to the X-15 Crash Site and Memorial
Yesterday I set off on a day trip to discover crash sites of some of the “X” planes that have went down in Southern California’s Mojave Desert. After recording the GPS coordinates from a few different websites I set...
