Here’s the photo of an Aardvark I promised to post for a commenter on a blog. The two “retired” colonels in the photo have flown the F-111 or FB-111. The one on the right as a test pilot testing terrain
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Here’s the photo of an Aardvark I promised to post for a commenter on a blog. The two “retired” colonels in the photo have flown the F-111 or FB-111. The one on the right as a test pilot testing terrain
Continue readingFlying friend, BIll Weiler, forwarded the link to a C-Span interview with Major Heather Penney, a DC National Guard fighter pilot who responded to the events on 9-11. It is very well done and offers a minute by minute brief
Continue reading2nd Lt. Katy Moffett wrote: This was at Pope Air Force Base/Fort Bragg while I was on Operations Air Force through the Air Force Academy in Summer 2008. We were on site with a bunch of Air Battle Managers during
Continue readingSandy – Seeing the “Old Gooney Bird” under “Generations” on your aviation webpage reminds me that I flew one from Miami, Fla. across the Pacific to Vietnam. The trip segment from the West Coast to Honolulu had us in
Continue readingQuestion: On a flight home from Baltimore last year, a woman sitting in a row behind me rang for a flight attendant. “My husband isn’t feeling well and is having trouble breathing,” she told the attendant. That set me to
Continue readingINTRODUCTION: On get-togethers with a friends, we commonly ask the age-old question “what did you do today?” Bill Weiler usually keeps us entertained by relating the trials and tribulations of tracking down ELTs that have gone off. While the ELTs
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