My experiences while flying at .77 Mach
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, […]
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 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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]