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I love aviation and a good story, and if you are here reading my blog, then you probably do to.…

Celestial Eagle

Need to shoot down a satellite? There’s an Eagle for that.

San Francisco to New York…The Long Way: Part II

The crew of the Pan-Am Airlines California Clipper on a flight from San Francisco to Auckland, New Zealand in early…

San Francisco to New York…The Long Way, Part 1

The outbreak of World War II in the Pacific Theater would force a Pan-Am Flying Boat into a haphazard journey around the world.

Chasing The Eclipse

How a Concorde supersonic passenger jet chased a solar eclipse across the continent of Africa.

Operation Opera

The fantastic story of how the Israeli Air Force prevented Iraq from becoming a nuclear power in the 1980’s.

The Atlantic C-124 Disappearance

March 23, 1951: A U.S. Air Force cargo aircraft carrying the some of the best nuclear bomber flight crews in the 509th Bomb Group as well as the Brigadier General in charge of the U.S. 7th Air Division in Europe goes down 700 miles from Ireland

Old “666”

A crew of misfits, a literal flying fortress, a very unlucky tail number, and one of the longest dogfights in aerial combat history.

Balls 3 and Balls 8

How a pair of big…um…”Balls” helped America get to space.

Deep Sea 129

The greatest loss of life from hostile activity for an American aircrew during the entire Cold War era happened not in an active war zone, but in international territory above the Sea of Japan.