439th Troup Carrier Group (TCG) – 91st Troop Carrier Squadron (TCS) – WWII – C-47’s – IX Troop Carrier Command
The Nevada Triangle? Steve Fossett Disappearance
P-47D flown by Robert S. Johnson – Tuned by Staff Sergeant Ernest “Pappy” Gould – 470mph
Donald K. Phillips – 23-years old – Stinson Monoplane – A local man reported to the Connecticut State Police Barracks in Danielson, CT. that he had seen a low-flying plane that appeared to be in trouble near East Putnam on August 28th, 1935. Donald’s father was Frank N. Phillips – he was a Director of the Ryan Aeronautical Company.
Robert Edison Fulton, Jr. – STARS (Surface-to-Air Recovery System) – Skyhook – Project Coldfeet
Book: “The History of the American Aircraft Industry” by Gene R. Simonson – MIT Press – 1968
LTV = Ling-Temco-Vought – Ling (James Joseph “Jimmy” Ling) – TEMCO (Texas Engineering and Manufacturing Company) – Vought (as in Chauncey Milton “Chance” Vought)
Vincent Burnelli – FDR Controversy
Aliya Musa – She is writing a Biography of Claude Graham-White
Ruth Law – First Loop-to-Loop – flew from Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois to Hornell, N.Y. (590 miles) on November 19th, 1916
H. Glenn Buffington Collection
German Luftwaffe in WWII – “Amerika” Bomber
Wild Weasels in Vietnam – YGSM (You Gotta Be Shitting Me) – Major John Revak (Pilot) – Major Stan Goldstein (EWO)
Colonel Jacksel Markham “Jack” Broughton – WWII (P-47) – Korea (F-80C & F-84) – Vietnam (F-105) and the Thunderbirds – Books: “Thud Ridge” – “Going Downtown” – “Rupert Red Two”