BOEING B-52D: AIRCRAFT #56-0676
Boeing B-52 Model D, aircraft #56-0676 now sits on static display at the Heritage Air Park on Fairchild Air Force Base, near Spokane Washington. Driving on to base one […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Big and Beautiful, Flying the B-36 Peacemaker
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, […]
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 […]
Stories and memories of Col. Francis Harold Potter, USAF (1921-2009) 