19 September 1967 – Capt. Clyde Walter Carter was born in Miami, FL, on November 13, 1936. He was serving with the 90th TFS out of Bien Hoa AB, Vietnam in 1967 when his F-100 suffered a mechanical failure on takeoff. Witnesses remember “an explosion and…the aircraft rolling hard right, trailing flame. The pilot waited
SSS Member Carl Patrick Laughlin, MD, a physician for more than 50 years in Newport News and a member of the medical team for the original Mercury 7 astronauts at Langley Air Force Base, died November 14, 2016, at his home in Williamsburg from pancreatic cancer. He was 85. He was born September 28, 1931, […]
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Hun Pilot Extraordinaire, Honorary SSS Member and Iconic in the history of aviation died this morning, according to reports. Bob Hoover, a World War II fighter pilot, former North American Aviation test pilot and world-renowned F-100 and other aircraft airshow pilot headed West Today (October 25, 20 16). Some of the greatest pilots who
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James E. (Jim) Williamson of Richmond, TX, “flew his last flight” on October 13, 2016. He was born in Houston, TX on November 7, 1929 and graduated from Lamar High School in 1947. He was commissioned in 1951 as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S.A.F. and became a career jet fighter pilot with a combat
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