Flight Journal

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 Grou

Of the nine fighter squadrons of P-51s that were stationed on Iwo Jima with 7th Fighter Command, several are still active today. One of them is the 457th Fighter Squadron of the 301st Fighter Wing based at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Wo

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

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 H

Captain Ian Watkins: “I have two memories. When the base was being attacked and all of the helicopters were in there. I got to watch them launch in every direction. I felt like it was out of a movie.” “On the second mission, it was the care and handl

A massive German offensive on the Eastern Front, ordered by Hitler and codenamed Operation “Zitadelle” (Citadel), had commenced on July 5, 1943. Now in its ninth day, the German advance was faltering and was destined to collapse into a reversal and r

ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE DATES in the past 100 years is December 7, 1941. On that day, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor with a swarm of aircraft, crippling one of the most powerful navies in the world. When the enemy aircraft attacked, Second Lieu

The B-2’s unique flying wing is an extremely efficient design that does not have the aerodynamic drag of other types of aircraft, due to the lack of a typical fuselage and tail planes. Its unrefueled range is approximately 9,600 kilometers, and the l

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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,

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

ate last summer, every channel of news media was reporting 24/7 on the fall of Kabul and the harrowing airlift that followed—a humanitarian crisis in full view of the world. It was a perfect storm of hasty planning, thousands of panicked refugees, an