Two F-100 pilots lost 4 years apart. On this day in 1967, 1st Lieutenant Joseph Daniel “Joe” Adrian flying F-100D #55-3611 was on a night scramble from the Tuy Hoa Runway, Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam. About six miles from the end of the runway over the South China Sea, his aircraft crashed. First Lieutenant
Ron’s story: My squadron the 615th of the 401st Tactical Fighter Wing out of England AFB in Louisiana was the first to operate in North Vietnam (NVN) and Laos. We were TDY to the Philippines in June 1964, wh,e Lt. (jg) Everett Alvarez, the USN pilot, was shot down in Laos; thereafter becoming the very […]
Today in History – March 31, 1965 – Ron Bigoness ejects from F-100D #552906 Read More »
29 March 1923: Flying a Curtiss R-6 Racer, serial number A.S. 68564, at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, First Lieutenant Russell Lowell Maughan, Air Service, United States Army, set a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) World Record for Speed of 380.75 kilometers per hour (236.59 miles per hour). On 14 October 1922, Maughan won the Pulitzer Trophy Race
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March 27, 1966 – Major Clyde Seiler was flying F-100C (#541897) with Colorado’s 120th Tactical Fighter Squadron when he was shot down by enemy ground fire while conducting a strafing mission in support of American forces. He died in the crash, becoming the first of two pilots from the squadron killed in action during its