February 2022 Articles

• As a boy, my dreams were all about aviation. The thought of flying was almost an obsession, and while attending college, I did learn to fly through the U.S. government’s Civilian Pilot Training Program. Later, I volunteered to be a U.S. Army Aviation Cadet, and before I got my silver wings, I decided I wanted […]

  

  Interview With Living U.S. Fighter Col. Anderson

  As a boy, my dreams were all about aviation. The thought of flying was almost an obsession, and while attending college, I did learn to fly through the U.S. government’s Civilian Pilot Training Program. Later, I volunteered to be a U.S. Army Aviation Cadet, and before I got my silver wings, I decided I wanted […]
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• Roughly two hours after landing at Hamid Karzai International Airport on the afternoon of August 15, Major Thomas Sukut and the crew of a Boeing C-17A from the 6th Airlift Squadron, had an eerie feeling. The airport, nestled in the mountains of the Hindu Kush just over three miles from the center of Kabul, Afghanistan, […]

  

  A C-17 aircrew’s dramatic flights during the fall of Kabul

  Roughly two hours after landing at Hamid Karzai International Airport on the afternoon of August 15, Major Thomas Sukut and the crew of a Boeing C-17A from the 6th Airlift Squadron, had an eerie feeling. The airport, nestled in the mountains of the Hindu Kush just over three miles from the center of Kabul, Afghanistan, […]
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• IN THE EARLY 1930S, the race was on for the development of a fast, comfortable airliner to take advantage of the growing passenger market that the Ford Tri-motor had earlier proven to be viable. By 1934, when the Stinson A Tri-motor took to the air, both the Boeing 247 and the Douglas DC-2 were flying […]

  

  The Forgotten Stinson: Model A Tri-motor

  IN THE EARLY 1930S, the race was on for the development of a fast, comfortable airliner to take advantage of the growing passenger market that the Ford Tri-motor had earlier proven to be viable. By 1934, when the Stinson A Tri-motor took to the air, both the Boeing 247 and the Douglas DC-2 were flying […]
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• Just after 1000 hours on the morning of July 13, 1943, four Luftwaffe Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-4 fighters of II./JG 54, led by Oberfeldwebel Otto Kittel, were scrambled from strip alert at Orel, on the German Eastern Front in Russia, approximately 220 miles (360 kilometers) south-southwest of Moscow. White A is so close to the […]

  

  Sturmovik Killer! Top scoring Fw 190 ace Otto “Bruno” Kittel

  Just after 1000 hours on the morning of July 13, 1943, four Luftwaffe Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-4 fighters of II./JG 54, led by Oberfeldwebel Otto Kittel, were scrambled from strip alert at Orel, on the German Eastern Front in Russia, approximately 220 miles (360 kilometers) south-southwest of Moscow. White A is so close to the […]
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• Captain Thomas A. Dwelle had no interest in the Distinguished Flying Cross or any of the U.S. Air Force’s other air medals by the time he’d spent a few months flying the Douglas A-1E Skyraider in South Vietnam. “At least once a month, sometimes twice, we’d stand out on the ramp and some general officer […]

  

  Captain Tom Dwelle’s DFC-winning mission to save an Army convoy

  Captain Thomas A. Dwelle had no interest in the Distinguished Flying Cross or any of the U.S. Air Force’s other air medals by the time he’d spent a few months flying the Douglas A-1E Skyraider in South Vietnam. “At least once a month, sometimes twice, we’d stand out on the ramp and some general officer […]
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• On March 6, 1945, the first P-51 Mustang touched down on Iwo Jima at Airfield no. 1 with 7th Fighter Command Brigadier General Earnest M. “Mickey” Moore in the pilot seat. Twenty-six Mustangs followed from the 47th Fighter Squadron, 15th Fighter Group, and became the first of nine P-51 equipped squadrons from three different fighter […]

  

  Mustang pilots fly rocket attacks over Iwo Jima

  On March 6, 1945, the first P-51 Mustang touched down on Iwo Jima at Airfield no. 1 with 7th Fighter Command Brigadier General Earnest M. “Mickey” Moore in the pilot seat. Twenty-six Mustangs followed from the 47th Fighter Squadron, 15th Fighter Group, and became the first of nine P-51 equipped squadrons from three different fighter […]
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