Stories and memories of Col. Francis Harold Potter, USAF (1921-2009)

Personally written stories and memories of a career USAF Bomber pilot.

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Accidents, or Happenings? Unexpected encounters while flying.

January 11, 2015by Ben Phillips Leave a comment

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 […]

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B-36, B-52, Berlin Airlift

My experiences while flying at .77 Mach

January 11, 2015by Ben Phillips Leave a comment

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, […]

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B-36, B-52

CONTROLLED INDOCTRINATION FLIGHT COURSE – PILOT RATING BOOK: Col. Francis H. Potter USAF

January 11, 2015by Ben Phillips Leave a comment

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 […]

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B-36

Pilot Flight Record And Log Book: Col. Francis H. Potter, USAF

January 10, 2015by Ben Phillips 1 Comment

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 […]

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B-36, B-52, Berlin Airlift

Stories from the Etchings on My Mind, Learning to Fly

December 18, 2013by Ben Phillips Leave a comment

THE BEGINNING. Living in the Mid-West in the late 20’s and 30’s, southern Illinois to be specific, our main news source was word of mouth for local news and newspapers […]

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Growing Up

You Aint Nothing But a Hound Dog! (The Hound Dog Missle)

December 16, 2013by Ben Phillips Leave a comment

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 […]

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B-52

An Unexpected Flying Experience, Decompression!

December 16, 2013by Ben Phillips Leave a comment

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, […]

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B-52

My Life In SAC – The USAF Strategic Air Command

December 16, 2013by Ben Phillips 1 Comment

“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 […]

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B-52

B-52 Memories

December 16, 2013by Ben Phillips Leave a comment

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 […]

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B-52

Big and Beautiful, Flying the B-36 Peacemaker

December 16, 2013by Ben Phillips 1 Comment

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, […]

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B-36

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