Accidents, or Happenings? Unexpected encounters while flying.
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 […]
Stories of flying the B*36 Bomber
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]