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OSHKOSH, Wisconsin-Legendary airshow performer R.A. Bob Hoover almost “Went West” on the eve of this year’s EAA AirVenture Oshkosh due to life-threatening anemia.

It could have deprived his body of oxygen as effectively as carbon monoxide poisoning. Fortunately, Dr. Robert Liddell was visiting the 94-year-old Hoover at his home in Palos Verdes, California. Liddell, who was director of aviation medicine for Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (nee Civil Aviation Authority) from 1988 to 1997, noted Hoover’s shortness of breath and other signs of anemia. He immediately called a local hospital to order blood tests.

Our team was flying low level in spread formation from Fairbanks to Elmendorf in 1960 when I felt a pretty good vibration … and then things smoothed out. I climbed to about 2,000 AGL, and one of the wingmen took this photo. We continued to Elmendorf, had no cross wind and landed without a

Good news: The second decade of our three-times-a-year journal begins when Issue 31 goes to the printer on 5 July 2016. It should be mailed from Fort Worth, TX, on 13 July via USPS First Class and in your hands soon thereafter (how soon depending on your whereabouts). We think you will be pleasantly surprised with this issue, the first published in our phased transition from Editor Medley Gatewood to Editor John Schulz. Here’s a sneak peek of the Front Cover and Table of Contents on page 2.

Happy 4th of July to those who came before us and gave us our freedom; to those who were in cockpits, in alert shacks and on flightlines with us to maintain it and to those who are fighting now to assure it’s future – it is our honor to have

“One day we were going off to fly and I had forgotten it, and I got out to the airplane and I thought, ‘Oh crap I don’t have my scarf,’ so I quick grabbed the Jeep and went back and got it,” Haerter recalled. “It was almost like it would

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From Joe Breen who just flew in Dean Cutshall’s F-100 What a dream come true being back in the bird once again.  I don’t know how many times in the past 50 years I have fallen asleep and found myself taxiing out in the Hun as I dreamed of days

Paul “Matt” Dillon “Headed West on April 13, 2016. Born on the 6th of July 1937 in Fairmont, W.V., Matt graduated from Kent State University, Ohio in June 1960. Forsaking his Chemistry degree, he immediately entered Pilot Training Class 62A at Moore AFB, TX. After graduation, he flew the F-100

  Bruce Whitman, Chairman, President and CEO of Flight Safety International invited Super Sabre Society members who wrote the book, The Friday Pilots, to visit Flight Safety International in Tucson and fly the latest version Lear and Challenger simulators – we were treated like rock stars, briefed, had lunch with the

SSS’r Dave Skilling will soon on another foray into Vietnam.  On April 13, eleven Fighter Pilots (mostly Navy) will meet with Viet pilots of our era in Hanoi.  Two of the Viets are retired LtGen’s.  The Navy guys are asking to meet with adversaries from specific engagements. The group has requested to

We recently learned that the Veteran’s Administration has approved a second claim for 100% Service connected disability for the latest F-100 Pilot, Gary Parent in 2014.  His Widow has received Widows Indemnity Compensation, and Texas Property Tax exemption for life as a result our work with the Department of Veterans