High Desert Hangar Stories: Eyewitness to history: The Red Baron’s final...
by Bob Alvis, special to Aerotech News
Back in the 1970s, there was a large group of aviation enthusiasts, test pilots and Barnstormers that held yearly...
High Desert Hangar Stories: B-24s in the South Pacific, and the...
by Bob Alvis, special to Aerotech News
This issue I was kicking around subject matter for my column, and I sure had a bunch of...
Bell D-188A: The first elevator with wings (and an X-Plane that...
by Bob Alvis
special to Aerotech News
The current F-35 Lightning II has a variant — the F-35B — that offers the short takeoff and vertical...
The final reckoning: Howard Hughes and the XF-11
by Bob Alvis, special to Aerotech News
When we left off our last installment of Howard Hughes and the crash of the XF-11, Hughes had...
High Desert Hangar Stories: Part III — Howard Hughes pays his...
by Bob Alvis, special to Aerotech News
When I last left you at the end of part two, Howard Hughes was knee-deep in trouble in...
Beset by Gremlins: Howard Hughes and the first flight of the...
by Bob Alvis, special to Aerotech News
Last issue, we got up to speed on the events of the day leading up to Howard Hughes’...
Howard Hughes tempts fate: The story of the XF-11
by Bob Alvis, special to Aerotech News
July 7 dawned clear over Los Angeles. It started out as just another day in the year 1946,...
High Desert Hangar Stories: The loss of the XB-70 Valkyrie: Seconds...
Sitting here, looking at the calendar and seeing “6/8/2020” staring at me instantly takes my mind back to the tragic loss of the XB-70...
High Desert Hangar Stories: Pride, bragging rights on the line during...
Back in the 1950s, flight test looked a lot different than it does today. Even though it was highly technical, it still had a...
V-E Day: 75th anniversary reflection from a Baby Boomer
This past week we marked an important date on the calendar, as V-E Day, the remembrance of the end of the war in Europe...
