15 April, 2014

Profile 85: FINAL - "030" as flown by Lt. Chris Morgan, 529th FS, 311th FBG

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Finished! " The last three years have been harder than any Japanese prison camp." What?!  What could be harder than the wor...
04 April, 2014

Profile 85: UPDATE - "030" as flown by Lt. Chris Morgan, 529th FS, 311th FBG

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"He was a good man. A good officer.  But he should have never been behind the stick of an airplane."* Well now.   That...
15 March, 2014

Profile 85 - BEGINNING: "030" as flown by Lt. Chris Morgan, 529th FS.

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"They didn't even get to try ..." Wedding day tragedies, first-time skydiving accidents, straight-off-the-lot car cr...
17 February, 2014

Profile 84 - FINAL: "573" as flown by Bob Mock and John Stiles

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The peasant in the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail was correct-rocks really do float.  And not just the really small ones but t...
04 January, 2014

Profile 83 - FINAL/UPDATE: The MiGs of the North "5018" as flown by Nguyen Hong My and "573" as flown by Bob Mock and John Stiles.

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Here it is —"5018" as flown by Lt. Nguyen Hong My, Vietnamese Peoples Air Force, on 19  January, 1972. ¹ It's a siniste...
14 December, 2013

Profile 83 - UPDATE: The MiGs of the North; "5018" as flown by Nguyen Hong My

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Imagine a penny. I know what probably came to mind—coppery, somewhat dingy and Abraham Lincoln’s profile.   And it wouldn’t surprise me...
30 November, 2013

Profile 83 - BEGINNING: The MiGs of the North; "5018" as flown by Nguyen Hong My

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It is one thing to write about an enemy.  It is yet another to buy him dinner. And yet another to salute to his honor . Recently, I w...
19 October, 2013

Profile 82 - FINAL: "Cocktail Hour" as flown by Raymond Plank, 43rd BG, 64th BS

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She's finished - it's "Cocktail Hour"! Though I can't verify exactly how many times Lt. Raymond Plank flew her...