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The U.S. Army’s unique, 85-ton artillery launcher could certainly shoot, but could it really scoot? CAMP DESERT ROCK, in the Frenchman Flat area of the Nevada Test Site, was warm and bustling with activity when dawn broke on May 25, 1953. The occasion was the 10th “shot” in a series of 11 nuclear tests in …
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Aviation History Briefing- March 2013F3F Biplane Barrels Back Grumman F3Fs would have been iconic fighters if only because of the vivid colors that graced every one— bands, chevrons, cowlings and panels of red, blue, … Read MoreRemembering WallyBefore he became one of the Mercury Seven, irreverent astronaut Walter Schirra cut his teeth flying Navy fighters. Captain Walter M. Schirra Jr. was best known to the public as the… Read MoreSentinel Soars Once MoreA father-and-son team spent eight years piecing together a ground-looped Stinson L-5E. “It was a great day. Just a beautiful morning. It had rained earlier but cleared by 10:30. No… Read MoreFlying Heel LiftDuring the interwar years, a Midwestern podiatrist designed one of the most radical aircraft ever to take wing. By the 1920s, the basic configuration of the airplane as we know it … Read More‘Badly Whipped He Will Be’The Union found to its chagrin that John Pope and the war in the east were not a good fit pring 1862 had begun with such promise for the North. The “Young Napoleon,” Maj. Gen. Geor… Read More
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