Raptors’ Thanksgiving Intercept of Tu-95 Bears

While there aren’t any official photos out of the 22 Nov sunset intercept, there are a couple homemade ones floating around the ‘sphere – like these courtesy AW&ST’s Ares blog (subscription maybe required).  No shots w/Bears – yet: Word is the package was a couple of Raptors, a tanker (natch) and an AWACS.  Do you see what we…

Flightdeck Friday!

1212L/0812Z 16 June 1959. 78 nm east of Wonsan, North Korea, a P4M Mercator assigned to VQ-1 (BuNo 122209) is conducting another “ferret” mission in international airspace over the Sea of Japan. At the controls are LCDRs Don Mayer and Vince Anania. Fours hours into the mission a pair of silver MiG-17s approach the Mercator…