26 July 1998 – Burt Rutan’s “Scaled Composites Model 281 Proteus is a tandem-wing high-altitude long endurance aircraft designed by Burt Rutan to investigate the use of aircraft as high altitude telecommunications relays. The Proteus is a multi-mission vehicle able to carry various payloads on a ventral pylon. The Proteus has an extremely efficient design,
SSS member Colonel Willard Selleck Gideon, 85, of Mt. Pleasant, widower of Jeannine H. Gideon headed west on October 10, 2016. Burial will be held at a later date at Arlington National Cemetery. He was born on June 3, 1931 in Takoma Park, MD, son of the late Willard Gideon and Eloise (Selleck) Gideon. He […]
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Stanton (Stan) Smith (October 17, 1938 – December 15, 2016) retired from the Air National Guard in 1981 and from Northwest Airlines in 1998. Stan was a fighter pilot’s fighter pilot, an outstanding South Dakota Guardsman, and a true patriot. Stan was born in Orange, New Jersey. While serving his country in Vietnam, he was a
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SSS member Bobby E. Walls, Major General, USAF (Ret) “Headed West” on Dec. 14, 2016. He was born in Ralston, OK on Aug. 10, 1930, graduated from OSU in 1952 and joined the United States Air Force, where he served a long distinguished career, retiring in 1990. Bobby E. Walls was born to the late
Bobby E. Walls MGen, USAF, Ret., “Headed West” on December 14, 2016. Read More »