Stories and memories of Col. Francis Harold Potter, USAF (1921-2009)

Personally written stories and memories of a career USAF Bomber pilot.

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Stories of flying the B*36 Bomber

Accidents, or Happenings? Unexpected encounters while flying.

January 11, 2015by Ben Phillips Leave a comment

I could feel the vibrations and hear the noise of the departing KC 135 tanker aircraft that early morning as it echoed through the heavy fog. I had just arrived […]

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B-36, B-52, Berlin Airlift

My experiences while flying at .77 Mach

January 11, 2015by Ben Phillips Leave a comment

In 1956 the 92 Bomb Wing, (H) was alerted for upgrading to Boeing’s new eight engined all jet heavy bomber, the B-52’s. We had three bomb squadrons in our wing, […]

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CONTROLLED INDOCTRINATION FLIGHT COURSE – PILOT RATING BOOK: Col. Francis H. Potter USAF

January 11, 2015by Ben Phillips Leave a comment

The pages below are scans of the CONTROLLED INDOCTRINATION FLIGHT COURSE – PILOT RATING BOOK of Col. Francis H. Potter, USAF.  Col Potter began flight training on August 12th, 1943 […]

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Pilot Flight Record And Log Book: Col. Francis H. Potter, USAF

January 10, 2015by Ben Phillips 1 Comment

The information below is summarized from Pilot Flight Log Book of Col. Francis Harold Potter USAF .   See photos below for scans of individual log book pages. Link to Spreadsheet […]

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B-36, B-52, Berlin Airlift

Interview With Col. Francis Potter – March 1990

January 10, 2014by Ben Phillips Leave a comment

Interviewer:  You’ve got almost 10,000 flying hours.  That’s a lot of hours. Potter:  Yes, but the airline pilots now make a career out of it, so a lot of them […]

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B-36, B-52, Berlin Airlift, Occupied Japan

My love affair with the “tall tails!” Flying the Big Bombers

December 16, 2013by Ben Phillips Leave a comment

How many sweethearts or love affairs can one man have or expect to have in his short life time? How many times can he look at someone or something and […]

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B-36, B-52

Learning to Survive! Strategic Air Command Survival School

December 16, 2013by Ben Phillips Leave a comment

             Shhhhhhhh! Quiet!! See him there? Down by the road! My two companions froze as we strained to see. It was nearly midnight with only a sliver of moon lighting […]

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B-36, B-52

Big and Beautiful, Flying the B-36 Peacemaker

December 16, 2013by Ben Phillips 1 Comment

Wow! Can this big hunk of metal  really get off the ground? I must be looking at a thousand square feet of aluminum skin, along with a million  different parts, […]

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A B-36 Story from long ago.

December 16, 2013by Ben Phillips 1 Comment

There is a small group of Airmen, numbering less than .01% of the entire Air Force, of which I am a member.  When you think of the thousands who wear […]

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