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 […]
Category Archives: Berlin Airlift
Fifty Years Ago It Happened – Memories of the Berlin Airlift 50th Anniversary Reunion
How many remember events of 50 years past? Younger people may think that’s pre-historic, but for many past that age, vivid memories remain. Since my working life was linked with […]
Pilot Flight Record And Log Book: Col. Francis H. Potter, USAF
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 […]
Interview With Col. Francis Potter – March 1990
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 […]
The Day I Became A Millionaire
THE DAY I BECAME A MILLIONAIRE How well I remember that day in 1948 when I was given $75,000,000. (yes that’s 75 million dollars) in good old American greenbacks. For […]
The Berlin Airlift, As Remember It
From the middle of 1946 to early summer of 1949, I was assigned to the 317th Troop Carrier Group stationed at Tachikawa Japan. The mission for our group was to […]
Stories and memories of Col. Francis Harold Potter, USAF (1921-2009) 