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Wurtsmith Air Museum 4071 East Van Ettan Street, Oscoda, MI, United StatesOn this date in 1965 …
Wurtsmith Air Museum 4071 East Van Ettan Street, Oscoda, MI, United StatesOn 29 September 1965, ten years after it entered service, the first operational Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, RB-52B-15-BO 52-8711, was retired to the Strategic Aerospace Museum, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. 52-8711, had arrived at Castle Air Force Base, California on 29 June 1955, and was assigned to the 93rd Bombardment Wing (Heavy). It later served […]
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Wurtsmith Air Museum 4071 East Van Ettan Street, Oscoda, MI, United States
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Wurtsmith Air Museum 4071 East Van Ettan Street, Oscoda, MI, United States
In Memoriam
On this date in 1988, KC-135A, 60-0317, was returning from TDY to KI Sawyer. The aircraft made a hard landing following a steep approach in crosswind conditions and went off the side of the runway and broke up. A fire erupted. All crew members were lost. A firefighting exercise had just completed, and the team […]
Anniversary of the breaking of the sound barrier.
On October 14, 1947, A booming thunder roared across the clear skies of the Mojave Desert, as U.S. Air Force Capt. Chuck Yeager flew an experimental rocket-powered plane faster than the speed of sound.
On this day in aviation history…
Wurtsmith Air Museum 4071 East Van Ettan Street, Oscoda, MI, United States18 October 1922: At Selfridge Field, near Mount Clemens, Michigan, Assistant Chief of the Air Service Brigadier General William Mitchell set a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) World Absolute Speed Record flying a Curtiss R-6 biplane, Air Service serial number A.S. 68564, over a 1 kilometer course at a speed of 358.84 kilometers per hour (222.973 miles per […]
On this date in 1975
Wurtsmith Air Museum 4071 East Van Ettan Street, Oscoda, MI, United StatesIn October and November of 1975 several UFOs were reported near not only Wurtsmith's weapons storage area, but three other bases across the country. https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88-01315R000300070001-4.pdf
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