Word: eglin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Major Lonnie Moore, 36, one of the leading jet aces of the Korean war (ten MIG-15 kills, one probable); in the crash of the Air Force's hottest supersonic fighter, McDonnell's F101 Voodoo, which he was testing at the Air Proving Ground Command's Eglin Air Force Base...
...mile quartet of Jack Richards, Dave Alpers, Warron Little, and Alan Howe, which holds the Crimson indoor record for the event, was caught at the finish by a strong Princeton foursome of Jim Groom, Tom Eglin, Gaby Markisohn and Joe Meyers. Meyers, with a powerful kick, caught Howe with about 180 yards to go. The winning time...
...Washington bureau holds the TIME speed record. Members of the bureau covered 46,571 air miles this year, and two staffers traveled faster than sound. The speed dash was done by Bureau Chief Jim Shepley and Pentagon Reporter Clay Blair over Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, each riding in a Lockheed F-94C. At 40,000 ft., the pilots went into a power dive. They broke through the sonic barrier, then pulled out of the dive...
After the war, General Kepner was air commander at the Bikini atomic tests, more recently has been commander of the Air Force's proving ground at Eglin Field, Florida. In sending him to Alaska, the Defense Department was putting a veteran interceptor on top of the world, along the short Arctic air route to the U.S. from Russia...
...Commander in Chief of the Army, Navy and Air Force, flew down a day later to inspect the 3rd Infantry at Fort Benning, Ga. (where he fired a 105-mm. howitzer battery). Then he went on to watch Air Force bombing and rocket firing at Florida's Eglin Air Force Base...