It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Truly, the accolades written in praise of Douglas’ wonderously rugged and lethal AD Skyraider, affectionately known as the SPAD, exceed the thousands. With roots in the latter days of WW2 (via the XBTD-2), the SPAD saw actrion in Korea, Vietnam and numerous fronts…
This is Air to Air footage of Warbirds from the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino CA. P38, Zero, Hellcat and others.Yeah, a cop out but you don’t see many (flying) Dauntlesses, real Zeros and Hellcats anymore and well, Lex started it with his P-47 vid 😛-SJS
Forty-nine years ago – within one day of each other, one astronaut headed for orbit as America’s first to circle the Earth and a future astronaut opened a series of record attempts in the McDonell F4H Phantom: Images Courtesy Rex Features & NASA 20 Feb 1962: Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn. USMC, in Mercury spacecraft…
Standby; standby; mark” In the relative cool of the early dawn, remote recording equipment began timing the grey and orange streak that thundered by at 125 ft above the desert floor. The date is 28 August 1961 and a second attempt at the world’s low altitude speed record is underway. Flying a 3km closed…
The following is an extract of a larger work I am preparing on fifty years of ASCM combat use and hopefully will be available in the coming year. – SJS Forces – Israel. The INS EILAT (K40) was originally commissioned in 1944 as the HMS ZEALOUS, a Z-class destroyer that saw extensive action as convoy…
Some art and photos from the archives, bound together with a classic score – for your weekend’s pleasure. – SJS — —
