PATRICK H. BRADY MAJOR, U.S. ARMY Medical Service Corps, 54th Medical Detachment, 67th Medical Group, 44th Medical Brigade PATRICK BRADY HATED HIS RESERVE OFFICERS TRAINING COURSE, which was mandatory at his college in the late 1950s, and eventually got booted out. But knowing that he'd eventually have to serve in the Army and figuring it would be better to be an officer than an enlisted man, he ultimately got back into ROTC. He was commissioned in the medical service corps after graduation.
Saluting The Legacy Of The Medal of Honor On Behalf Of The Aviation Week Group & General Electric Our Deepest Gratitude To The Recipients Of The Medal Of Honor In The Field Of Aviation
Photo Contest Best of Best 35 Medal of Honor 11 Reflections 8 Military 36 General 40 Space 44 Civil 46 Judges 49 Winners 50 Honorable Mention 52 90 ASAA Art Awards ASAA Honorable Mention 105
BERNARD F. FISHER MAJOR, U.S. AIR FORCE 1st Air Commandos AFTER SERVING BRIEFLY IN THE NAVY AT THE END OF WORLD WAR II, Bernard Fisher spent 1947 to 1950 in the Air National Guard, then joined ROTC while he was a college student in Utah. Commissioned a second lieutenant in the Air Force in 1951, he served as a jet fighter pilot in the Air Defense Command until 1965, when he volunteered to serve in Vietnam.
Aviation Week & Space Technology joins the American Society of Aviation Artists for the fourth year in presenting the art in this annual special issue.
JAMES B. STOCKDALE CAPTAIN, U.S. NAVY Senior Officer, 4th Allied Prisoner-of-War Wing JAMES STOCKDALE ENTERED ANNAPOLIS IN 1943, hoping to get into action in World War II. But by the time he graduated, the war was over. He spent the Korean War stateside as a Navy air instructor. It wasn't until the war in Vietnam that he finally saw action as a fighter pilot.
JOHN L. LEVITOW AIRMAN FIRST CLASS, U.S. AIR FORCE 3rd Special Operations Squadron JOHN LEVITOW DECIDED TO JOIN THE NAVY after high school because the Army and Marines required a lot of walking, and that seemed like too much work. But when he showed up at the Navy recruiting office and had to wait because the recruiters were busy, he went next door and joined the Air Force.
JAY ZEAMER, JR. CAPTAIN, U.S. ARMY AIR CORPS 65th Bombardment Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group (Heavy) JAY ZEAMER WAS ALREADY A SECOND LIEUTENANT in the Army Reserve in 1939 when he took flight training as part of the Army Air Corps. After earning his wings early in 1941, he served as a pilot with the 19th Bomb Squadron at Langley Field, Virginia, and finished a degree in civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the same time.
RAYMOND M. CLAUSEN, JR. PRIVATE FIRST CLASS, U.S. MARINE CORPS Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 263, Marine Aircraft Group 16, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing
JOSEPH J. FOSS CAPTAIN, U.S. MARINE CORPS Marine Fighting Squadron 121, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing JOE FOSS WAS CRAZY ABOUT AIRPLANES from the time he was eleven, when he saw Charles Lindbergh in an airport near his home in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. A few years later, he himself flew, this time with a barnstormer who put his biplane into a series of extreme aerobatics to see if he could make the boy sick. Foss loved the sensation and began to save his money to get a pilot's license.
"Airplane Rides over the City" 16" x 20" Charles Kadin, Toronto, Ontario Charles Kadin Following a highly successful career spanning 50 years in the graphic arts, Kadin began a second career pursuing his interest in aviation history and aviation art. Since 1986 his work has been exhibited by the ASAA, CAAA, CAE SimuFlite and Canada Aviation Museum, and has been published in aviation magazines. His work has also won a number of awards
Barbara Baker Burrows is picture editor of LIFE magazine, which now publishes eight premium single-topic issues a year, some of which are hardcovers. She has assigned and coordinated the photography of major events such as LIFE's coverage of the Apollo space program, Democratic and Republican National Conventions and the Olympics. Burrows has curated numerous exhibits of photography and has judged many national and international photography contests. She is on the boards of directors of the Lennart Nilsson Science Awards and Eddie Adams Photography Workshop.
INDIA'S IN India has formally pledged its participation in the European Union's 3.2-billion-euro ($3.9-billion) Galileo satellite navigation system, and will insist on uninterrupted access to signals, according to a government source. As expected, India will pick up a $350-million stake in the project (AW&ST Nov. 10, p. 19). India will be involved in the development and operation of Galileo "on an equal footing," said an Indian official.
RC-135 Cobra Ball aircraft, flown by the secretive U.S. Air Force 55th Wing, have monitored foreign missile tests for decades. Now Northrop Grumman is proposing a replacement, named Cobra All, based on the Boeing 767, to replace it. The aircraft would carry long-range infrared seekers and a large X-band radar to characterize incoming reentry vehicles and countermeasures. It is also being pitched as a possible replacement for the aging Cobra Judy ships.
In the hope of fielding its new maritime helicopter as soon as possible, the Canadian government has devised a set of financial carrots and sticks to drive industry to meeting that goal. But Ottawa's decision to move forward on the project came with a major surprise--the elimination of the Lockheed Martin Canada-led team's NH-90. The competition is now reduced to the AgustaWestland EH101 and Sikorsky S-92, which are vying for the estimated $2-billion Sea King replacement.
NetJets Inc. has ordered 50 Raytheon Aircraft Co. Hawker 400XP and eight Hawker 800XP business jets worth more than $360 million, with options for an additional 50 400XPs. Deliveries are scheduled to begin this month and continue through 2009. In related news, Raytheon Aircraft received a $228-million contract from the U.S. Air Force for another 47 T-6A Texan II trainers, marking the 11th option exercised for the two-place, turboprop-powered airplane. To date, the Air Force and U.S. Navy have ordered a total of 301 aircraft and 149 have been delivered.
It is a shame the world only saw one (successful) supersonic commercial liner. I had hoped there would be design after competing design worldwide. Now the Concorde has been relegated to being a museum piece. Why doesn't NASA buy one, strip out the luxury seats, fill it with instruments and conduct research flights?
Chafing at US Airways' attempts to get labor cost concessions beyond those it extracted when it was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2002-03, the carrier's Air Line Pilots Assn. unit said the board should remove CEO David Siegel and Chief Financial Officer Neal Cohen. The company says it needs to reduce its costs further, and Chairman David Bronner said the board "has complete confidence in the management team." Shareholders "rely on management and union leaders to work together to solve problems, rather than looking for someone to blame," Bronner said.
