By Bob Alvis, special to Aerotech News The year was 1946 and two brothers-in-law found themselves at a crossroads. Both…
By Bob Alvis, special to Aerotech News They dreaded Christmas that year. It was 1944, and the war would never…
By Bob Alvis, special to Aerotech News Aviation Cadet Paul Day was looking at his instruments and straining to hear…
By Bob Alvis, special to Aerotech News The hometown boy … the beloved son of a mother and a father…
Courtesy photograph One of the birds that made up the Elisabeth Lake Air force rescued from Rogers dry lake bed….
by Bob Alvis, special to Aerotech News The anniversary of the first manned supersonic flight comes around every year on…
By Bob Alvis, special to Aerotech News This past weekend, I was doing my flight line duties at the Capital…
Courtesy photograph Col. Albert Boyd posing with Racey after the successful attempt to set a new world speed record. A…
Better red then dead! Military pilots in World War II had many obstacles to overcome before shipping off to war,…
By Bob Alvis, special to Aerotech News July 1980 was the end of an era and one that I was…
By Bob Alvis, special to Aerotech News Air Force work days back in the late 1970s were pretty routine. With…
Courtesy photograph The Hospital where Jimmy Blake was treated at in Lancaster Mountaineering in the Antelope Valley A recurring subject…
Robert Hester For the love of a son On Dec. 5, 1943, the crew of B-24E #41-28463 — an Army…