was was recognized with the Aviation Achievement Award in 2002 The Kentucky Air National Guard received the 2002 Aviation Achievement Award for their service to Kentucky and the nation in […]
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Gen. William Thurman is U.S. Naval Academy graduate who accepted a U.S. Air Force commission. He was a T-38 flight instructor, and he flew Top Gun in Vietnam in the
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A Cold War veteran of the U.S. Air Force, Roy Shoffner set his sights on raising a Lockheed P-38 Lightening from beneath Greenland’s ice cap and restoring her to flight.
Scrappy Johnson served his country as a pilot in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. He won the 1958 Collier Trophy for breaking the world altitude record in the F-104A
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A veteran of WW II’s daring and deadly 1943 Ploesti oilfield raids, Col. Dabney was an early OSS agent and flew one of the two planes that destroyed the bridge
