Stories and Illustrations of combat airplanes, missiles and the people that flew them

I talk to old combat pilots/crew, draw their airplanes and pass on whatever I've learned. ©2008 - 2025 John Mollison

01 July, 2014

Profile 88: JUST STARTED—The A-4C as flown by Paul Galanti

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Here's the scene:   A door-to-door peddler entices a gullible couple to buy a "24-piece set" of plastic storage container...

Profile 87: IN PROGRESS—The RB-47H as flown by Freeman "Bruce" Olmstead

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"That is such an old story... "It's news to me!" I thought. ...and if you use Google, it's all over the i...
30 May, 2014

Profile 83/84: "The History Lesson."

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For a brief— really brief—moment in time, I wanted to name this print, "Starfish." Uh.  Yeah.   Starfish. It would have ...
07 May, 2014

Profile 86: "523" as flown by Leo Istas, VMF-313

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Think about this—can you "bounce" a 1,000 pound iron bomb along the water? Most of us have skipped rocks across a pond; that...
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...
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I've been drawing airplanes since I was 3 and haven't stopped. Along the way, I got to know the pilots and crew...and this blog is a result.
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