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Today in History – September 25, 1968 – 1Lt Norman M. Paulsen is KIA after F-100 #55-3602 crashes

25 September 1968 – Norman Macleod Paulsen was born on October 6, 1945, in Elmsford, NY.  His mother said, “Ever since he was a little boy, he dreamed of flying.” He had enlisted in the Air Force and began his tour on August 3, 1968. He had the rank of First Lieutenant. On a mission

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Lyday, Carl V.

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Carl V. Lyday

Preferred Name: Carl
Date of Birth: March 23, 1943
Highest Military Grade: 0-6 – Colonel
Hometown: Memphis, TN
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“The F-100 was a single-seat, single-engine, macho kind of fighter, but it wasn’t that good because it didn’t have any avionics, everything was done manually. The bombing was done manually, strafing was without computer aid. The 100 had no navigation equipment, not even an INS. You just took off and flew 400 miles that way and dropped your bomb on the target.

The F-100 was extremely fun to fly and being single-engine, single-seat, it was what all fighter pilots want to do.”

(source: https://aopalive.aopa.org/detail/video/5583133462001/carl-lyday?_ga=2.31495035.49904616.1528978166-905213877.1528978166 )

Units Assigned

  • 1970 Gunnery School, Luke AFB, AZ (F-100)
  • 1970-1971 Phan Rang, Vietnam (F-100 235 combat sorties)
  • 8/1991-7/1994 46th Test Group, Commander, Holloman AFB, NM (QF-100)

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F-100
F-111

Military & Civilian Education

Military Education:

  • Physics, USAFA
  • Avionics testing, US Air Force Test Pilot School

Civilian Education:

  •  Curtis High School

 

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