Article Courtesy of The USAF and Edwards Air Force base Brig. Gen. Robert L. Cardenas is chief, National Strategic Target List Division, Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff, at Offutt Air…

Museum is Saved! From The Official Flying Leathernecks Museum Website CONGRADULATIONS FLYING LEATHERNECKS MUSEUM The Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum, a critically important icon of American heritage, has been saved. The…

3 January 1944: Major Gregory Boyington, United States Marine Corps Reserve, commanding VMF-214 at Bouganville, Solomon Islands, led 48 fighters in an attack against the Japanese naval base at Rabaul…

Above: Capt. Ted Harduvel was a fighter pilot and he looked the part. Tall, broad-shouldered with a rakishly handsome countenance and a sculpted jaw, Ted resembled a movie star. His world,…

‘Twas the night before Christmas, and out on the  ramp,Not an airplane was stirring, not even a Champ.The aircraft  were fastened to tiedowns with care,In hopes that come morning, they …

21 December 1970: At the Grumman Aerospace Corporation plant, Calverton, Long Island, New York, Chief Test Pilot Robert Kenneth Smyth and Project Test Pilot William Howard Miller took off on…

Airshows are a great way to see our military in action. It is also a good way to get inspired for Adults and Children. It bonds families and they are…

21 September 1942: At Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington, the Boeing Model 345, the first of three XB-29 prototypes, Air Corps serial number 41-002, took off on its first flight. Edmund T. “Eddie”…

21 September 1964: The first prototype North American Aviation XB-70A-1-NA Valkyrie, serial number 62-0001, flown by Chief Test Pilot Alvin S. White and Colonel Joseph F. Cotton, U.S. Air Force,…

23 August 1954: The first of two Lockheed YC-130 Hercules four-engine transport prototypes, 53-3397, made its first flight from the Lockheed Air Terminal at Burbank, California, to Edwards Air Force Base.…