February 2023 Articles

• General Curtis E. LeMay, Air Force Chief of Staff, was not happy. First-line U.S. fighters had been in South East Asia in small numbers since 1960. By mid-1964, more fighters began rotating through bases in South Vietnam and Thailand as a show of force. Reconnaissance missions with a pair of fighters as escorts, known as […]

  

  First Bridge – The start of the Vietnam War

  General Curtis E. LeMay, Air Force Chief of Staff, was not happy. First-line U.S. fighters had been in South East Asia in small numbers since 1960. By mid-1964, more fighters began rotating through bases in South Vietnam and Thailand as a show of force. Reconnaissance missions with a pair of fighters as escorts, known as […]
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• The Flying Heritage and Combat Armor Museum’s Bf 109E-3 Wk. Nr. 1342 , piloted by Ross Granley, flies in its original wartime markings as an aircraft of JG 51 during the Battle of Britain in 1940, except for having no individual code number as there is some uncertainty over exactly which number it wore. (Photo […]

  

  The Last Combat – Messerschmitt Bf 109E-3 Wk. Nr. 1342

  The Flying Heritage and Combat Armor Museum’s Bf 109E-3 Wk. Nr. 1342 , piloted by Ross Granley, flies in its original wartime markings as an aircraft of JG 51 during the Battle of Britain in 1940, except for having no individual code number as there is some uncertainty over exactly which number it wore. (Photo […]
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• Headquartered just over a mile from the often frozen waters of the Niagara River and Lake Erie in Buffalo, New York, Bell Aircraft Company and its founder Larry Bell were known for doing things differently in the late 1930s. In 1937, the company debuted its radically unconventional YFM-1 Airacuda, a twin-engine, pusher-driven design that included […]

  

  Charming the Snake – Craig Hutain & John Cyrier on flying the Bell P-39 Airacobra

  Headquartered just over a mile from the often frozen waters of the Niagara River and Lake Erie in Buffalo, New York, Bell Aircraft Company and its founder Larry Bell were known for doing things differently in the late 1930s. In 1937, the company debuted its radically unconventional YFM-1 Airacuda, a twin-engine, pusher-driven design that included […]
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• If you were at the 2022 EAA AirVenture Oshkosh airshow, you may have had the chance to see something truly unique early one morning: the rooster crowing to wake you was replaced with the magical rumble of two F7F Tigercats and four P-51 Mustangs, a sortie put together by Lewis Air Legends, Breitling, and AOPA. […]

  

  A Legendary Sortie

  If you were at the 2022 EAA AirVenture Oshkosh airshow, you may have had the chance to see something truly unique early one morning: the rooster crowing to wake you was replaced with the magical rumble of two F7F Tigercats and four P-51 Mustangs, a sortie put together by Lewis Air Legends, Breitling, and AOPA. […]
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• The evening sun was low on the horizon as John Cyrier taxied toward the Commemorative Air Force’s (CAF’s) ramp at San Marcos, Texas on July 28. He had just completed the final leg of a four-stop flight home from AirVenture 2022 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Cyrier pivoted the Central Texas Wing’s P-39Q around to the right, […]

  

  Old Crow – Col. Bud Anderson’s airborne reunion with a P-39Q Airacobra

  The evening sun was low on the horizon as John Cyrier taxied toward the Commemorative Air Force’s (CAF’s) ramp at San Marcos, Texas on July 28. He had just completed the final leg of a four-stop flight home from AirVenture 2022 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Cyrier pivoted the Central Texas Wing’s P-39Q around to the right, […]
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• Arctic cold invaded Jesse Brown’s cockpit as he desperately looked for a place to land his F4U-4 Corsair in the snow-covered mountains of North Korea, near the Chosin Reservoir. It was early December 1950. More than 120,000 Chinese troops had crossed into North Korea and encircled 30,000 troops from the U.S. Marine Corps’ 1st Division, […]

  

  Flying for “Devotion” – Behind the scenes with the pilots who brought the story of Ensign Jesse Brown & LTJG Thomas Hudner to life

  Arctic cold invaded Jesse Brown’s cockpit as he desperately looked for a place to land his F4U-4 Corsair in the snow-covered mountains of North Korea, near the Chosin Reservoir. It was early December 1950. More than 120,000 Chinese troops had crossed into North Korea and encircled 30,000 troops from the U.S. Marine Corps’ 1st Division, […]
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• “At the end of the War, there was an interview with a senior German U-boat commander asking why they pulled their submarines from the Atlantic coast in 1943,” American Airlines Boeing 737 captain Sean Neal recalls. “His reply was, ‘It was because of those damn little red and yellow airplanes!’” The little red and yellow […]

  

  Fairchild 24 Sean Neal pays tribute to history

  “At the end of the War, there was an interview with a senior German U-boat commander asking why they pulled their submarines from the Atlantic coast in 1943,” American Airlines Boeing 737 captain Sean Neal recalls. “His reply was, ‘It was because of those damn little red and yellow airplanes!’” The little red and yellow […]
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