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Posted on May 02, 2013 By Ray Panko | [email protected] | Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum In November 1950, a fleet of small but very fast MiG-15s began to devastate United Nations fighters and bombers over North Korea. These new swept wing fighters were much faster and more maneuverable than U.S.

Posted on April 02, 2013 By Ray Panko | [email protected] | Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum Birth of the Sabre. After World War II, countries built many aircraft designs to try to discover the best ways to use jet engines in fighters. All but one of the new designs by North

Posted on February 11, 2013 By Ray Panko | [email protected] | Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum Intercontinental Strategic and Tactical Bomber B-52 dropping up to 81 1,000 pound bombs. Air Force Photograph 041105-O-9999G-012 Since the 1950s, the Boeing B-52 has been America’s “big stick.” This massive and far-ranging aircraft began as

Posted on October 11, 2012 By Ray Panko | [email protected] | Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum In the 1950s, with jets growing larger and more expensive, Northrop developed a design for a small, simple, and inexpensive — yet still supersonic — aircraft. The aircraft used two GE J85 engines weighing less

Posted on July 24, 2012 In Vietnam, the great air rivalry was between the massive F-4 Phantom II and the small MiG-21, which American’s called Fishbed. Both were Mach 2 fighters, although most dogfights were fought at much lower speeds. However, they took very different paths to achieve their high

Posted on March 12, 2012 Nuclear Strike, Tanker, Reconnaissance, and Electronic Warfare Aircraft Figure 1: Our Skywarrior (S/N 144867) in its Original Form Key Points Called the A3D Skywarrior from 1956 to 1962. Redesignated the A-3 Skywarrior in 1962. First intended use: nuclear attack bomber. Later used as tactical strike

Posted on February 21, 2012 Pacific Aviation Museum’s newest aircraft is a Sikorsky CH-53D Sea Stallion, S/N 157173. The CH-53 has been the Marines’ heavy lift helicopter since the days of the Vietnam War. Our aircraft was commissioned in December 1969 and quickly went to Vietnam. It crashed on Oct.