5 May 1969 – A USAF North American F-100D-70-NA Super Sabre, #56-3214, one of two Super Sabres from the 452nd TFS/81st TFW out of RAF Lakenheath, was on a gunnery mission over Holbeach Range, Cambs., UK. The plane suffered engine failure, forcing pilot Capt. R.E. Riggs to eject. The jet fighter impacted into farmland, missing
7 April 1961 – The B-52B Ciudad Juarez (named in honor of El Paso’s sister city across the Rio Grande) took off on a practice mission to provide a target for two F-100A’s piloted by 1LT James van Scyoc and Cpt. Dale Dodd both from the 188th NMANG. The Huns started their run at the […]
6 April 1959: At Edwards Air Force Base, in the high desert of southern California, Colonel Edward Hamilton Taylor, United States Air Force, set a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) World Record for Speed Over a 1000 Kilometer Course of 1,126.62 kilometers per hour (700.05 miles per hour),¹ flying a McDonnell RF-101C-75-MC Voodoo, serial number 56-0119.
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5 April 1968 – To protest the lack of an aerial display to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Air Force…and to demonstrate against the government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Flight Lieutenant Alan Pollock of the RAF’s No. 1(F) Squadron makes an unauthorized display flight in a Hawker Hunter. This