Aviation News
The first commanding officer of United States Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN), retired Capt. Ronald E. “Mugs” McKeown, has passed away on Nov. 21. He was 76.
![mugs_r900x493[1]](http://alert5.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/mugs_r900x4931.jpg)
Photo: McKeown family
Continue reading “MiG killer and 1st commanding officer of TOPGUN has passed away”
The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) is having a “12 Planes of Christmas” fundraising campaign to maintain and restore their warbirds.
.jpg)
By Pacific Aviation Museum (DSB-0429r) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Mike Mangold, who won the Red Bull Air Race World Championship twice in 2005 and 2007 was killed in a L-39 accident on Dec. 6.
By Zamphuor [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Continue reading “Two times Red Bull Air Race champion and former F-4 pilot killed in L-39 accident”
The annual Blackened Canteen ceremony took place on Dec. 6 at the USS Arizona Memorial, Hawaii.
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher Hubenthal
Continue reading “Blackened Canteen ceremony”
Archaeologists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and University of Hawaii archaeologists were recently able to conduct a detailed archaeological survey of a U.S. Navy PBY-5 Catalina airplane sunk during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Photo Credit: UH Marine Option Program
[thumb]http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/shipwrecks/pby-5/[/thumb]