Category: Heritage
Meet Chuck Norris’ Tae Kwon Do instructor
While posted to Osan Air Base, South Korea in the 1950s, Chuck Norris began learning martial arts at the Osan Gym. One of those who taught him, Grand Master Do Sik Mun, is still teaching U.S. military personnel at the gym till this day.
Photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Heather A. Denby, 35th ADA Public Affairs
Tornado GR1 for sale
A Tornado GR1 fighter is put up for sale by a former RAF technician in order to raise funds to restore a Lightning warbird. He is asking for £20,000 to sell the aircraft.
By Mike Freer – Touchdown-aviation [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)], via Wikimedia Commons
Watch VC10’s six-hour road trip to RAF Museum Cosford
A VC10 fuselage had to snaked its way through narrow streets during a six-hour road trip from Bruntingthorpe airfield in Leicestershire to RAF Cosford Museum where it will go under permanent display.
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Final Tyndall QF-4 takes off
The 82nd Aerial Target Squadron flew its final QF-4 Phantom mission May 27 at Tyndall Air Force Base.
U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Alex Echols
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