OFFICER, GENTLEMAN, HERO: MAJOR MIKE MCGUIRE & HOW TWO U.S. AIR FORCE PILOTS SAVED A BRITISH VILLAGE BOTH PILOTS FOUGHT AS HARD AS THEY COULD TO KEEP THEIR AIRCRAFT STABLE… Warning lights and sounds indicated mechanical problems. With a catastrophic hydraulic leak, the 47,000 lb. monster of a swing wing bomber became near impossible to […]
MY U.S. AIR FORCE FIREFIGHTER’S LIFE AT RAF UPPER HEYFORD, 1992-94 I STOOD FROZEN, ON THE CURBSIDE, WAITING FOR AN ETERNITY… I waited for my cousin’s husband (and longtime friend) Derek to appear in his white Ford Transit van over the crest of Camp Road, to save me from certain hypothermia. On the pavement with
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RAF UPPER HEYFORD – F-111 AARDVARKS, OPERATION EL DORADO CANYON, AND THE CHIEF, 1992-1994 WHEN I FIRST ARRIVED AT RAF UPPER HEYFORD, UNITED KINGDOM, IN OCTOBER OF 1992… I had many in-processing meetings to attend on base. That’s when I first heard and saw the aircraft I would work closely with for the next two