Learning to Survive! Strategic Air Command Survival School
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 […]
Category Archives: B-52
Stories of Flying the B-52 Bomber
You Aint Nothing But a Hound Dog! (The Hound Dog Missle)
The 1960’s were great years. Elvis was king and was constantly belting out his “hits” and packing more and more money off to the bank. One song he made very […]
An Unexpected Flying Experience, Decompression!
Have you ever been unexpectedly whomped across the chest with a club? While at night? While at 36,000 feet? While piloting a B-52 eight engined jet bomber? Well I was, […]
My Life In SAC – The USAF Strategic Air Command
“Aaaaaarrrrooooooogah, Aaaaaarrrrooooooogah, Aaaaaarrrooooooogah” came blasting through the building. It was two o’clock in the morning this time, when that raucous electrifying blasting klaxon horn announced that an aircraft launch message […]
B-52 Memories
I piloted the B-52D aircraft, number 56-676, now on display, several times while stationed at Fairchild AFB, Washington from 1954 to 1964. My first fight with it was on February […]
Operation Chromedome, The USAF Strategic Air Command
Written by Col. Francis Harold Potter, USAF Operation Chromedome was a top secret military exercise conducted in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It evolved as the “Cold War” heated […]
