Air-Minded: the Big Reveal (Corrected)
It’s called assignment night, sometimes drop night (because that’s the day new pilot assignments drop), and it’s a party.
Air-Minded: We Have Met the Enemy (and He Is Us)
I posted a photo of USAF aggressor aircraft to Facebook. Friends were intrigued.
Air-Minded: PASM Photoblog XXVII (Updated 3/26/24)
It must be spring, because I made the first of two annual treks to Pima Air & Space Museum today.
Air-Minded: Speed Is Life … But How Much Speed? (Updated)
Last week, speaking at the Singapore Air Show, Boeing’s F-15EX program manager said the new version of the Eagle is capable of Mach 3 in a clean configuration. I questioned that claim, and did so publicly on social media.
Air-Minded: Additional Shades of Gray
The average F-15 Eagle pilot (and me for sure) sees the two-seat pilot/WSO Eagle II as a step backward to F-4 Phantom/F-111 Aardvark days. Still a fighter, no doubt more capable than the single-seat Eagle, but …
Long Time No See
Along with an anxious nation, I’ve been following news of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s secret hospitalization.
Air-Minded: Mid-Airs on the Ground (Updated)
One of several USAF mishap investigations I oversaw as chief of flight safety for Pacific Air Forces in the early 1990s was a runway collision between two F-16 fighters at an air base in Korea.
Better Late than Never
How weird is it that two of the three college friends I’m still close to today also have October birthdays?