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Posted on November 18, 2014 By Ray Panko | [email protected] | Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum Key Points The United States Marine Corps realized that beach assaults in the atomic age would be suicide. It needed to move large numbers of Marines far inland very rapidly, to sites without runways. For
Posted on August 04, 2014 By Ray Panko | [email protected] | Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum High above recently captured Rabaul, New Britain, and piloting a fully loaded B-17E Flying Fortress, Capt. Frederick “Fred” C. Eaton, Jr. had just spotted his target – a 10,000-ton enemy freighter. As he lined up
Posted on July 31, 2014 By Ray Panko | [email protected] | Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum Ford Island, NAS Pearl Harbor This is the third in a series of posts about buildings on Ford Island, NAS Pearl Harbor. Early in the attack, the Ford Island dispensary was damaged by a high-level
Posted on April 21, 2014 By Ray Panko | [email protected] | Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum This is the second article about the Ford Island Seaplane Base, which was the first Japanese target on Dec. 7, 1941. The first article gave an overview of the base and Ford Island. In this
Posted on March 8, 2014 By Raymond R. Panko | [email protected] | Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum Synopsis The Battle of Midway is well known as the turning point in the Pacific war. However, if not for the Battle of the Coral Sea a month earlier, the three American carriers at
Posted on January 23, 2014 By Ray Panko | [email protected] | Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum Introduction: Ford Island, Pearl Harbor Ford Island was the epicenter of the attack on December 7, 1941. Its seaplane base had dozens of long-range PBY patrol bombers capable of locating the Japanese fleet after the
Posted on December 09, 2013 By Ray Panko | [email protected] | Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum Misty Forward Air Controller (FAC) Figure 1: F-100F Misty FAC Painting by David Tipps / DavidTipps.com Key Points Follow on to the North American F-86 Sabre, named the F-100 Super Sabre. “F-100,” popularly shortened to
Posted on November 21, 2013 By Ray Panko | [email protected] | Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum’s UH-1H Huey Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum’s UH-1H Huey (S/N 69-15705) is one of our Vietnam War veteran aircraft. She led a charmed life until her last day there. It had not
Posted on October 24, 2013 By Ray Panko | [email protected] | Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum Two-Seat Medium-Range Heavy Tactical Bomber Royal Australian Air Force F-111Cs in Flight at Nellis Air Force Base. United States Air Force photograph 060214-F-6911G-135. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Australian_F-111s.jpg Key Points Although designated a fighter, the F-111 was a medium-range
Posted on August 26, 2013 By Ray Panko | [email protected] | Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum Bullet Points Last of the large piston-engine military helicopters (along with the Piasecki H-21 Flying Banana). Used by the U.S. Navy, Army, Marines, Coast Guard, and Air Force Reserves. First flight March 8, 1954. Entered
Posted on August 06, 2013 By William Sage IV | [email protected] | Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum An early Boeing B-17E aircraft like 41-2446. Note she does not have a tail number, which indicates she has not yet been delivered to the Army Air Forces. United States Army Air Forces aircraft
Posted on July 10, 2013 By Ray Panko | [email protected] | Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum Development In the mid-1960s, the U.S. Air Force was concerned. Vietnam was showing that the F-4 could barely take on second-generation Soviet fighters such as the MiG-19 and MiG-21. At the same time, it was
Posted on May 15, 2013 By Ray Panko | [email protected] | Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum The Zipper. Designed as a day fighter, the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter was created by placing the most powerful available jet engine in the smallest possible fuselage. USAF pilots called it the Zipper or the Zip.
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