the Jim Houston Pavilion featuring the F-117 Nighthawk Stealth Bomber opens to the public today. Pavilion includes exhibits on stealth technology. Pavilion entrance included with regular museum admission. Free for Palm Springs Air Museum Members. Open regular hours: daily from 10 am to 5 pm, just like the rest of the Museum.
Flying the Blackbird: A discussion about what it took to operate the SR-71 Join us for a moderated program about piloting what is even today the world’s fastest air-breathing manned aircraft, the SR-71 Blackbird. Our special guests include Col. Buz Carpenter, a former SR-71 driver and current overseer of the Smithsonian’s famed Blackbird aircraft along […]
Czechoslovakia was liberated from the Nazis in May 1945, however the gradual Sovietization and the dominance of the Communist party took place in the country. The Communists completed the takeover in February 1948 and the period of their totalitarian regime lasted for more than four decades. After the takeover, thousands of Czechs and Slovaks (up […]
Born in the County of Norfolk, England in 1928, Mick Dawson left Litcham Secondary Modern School at the age of 14, December 1942. A wartime airfield for the American Army Air Force was under construction nearby and Mick got a job with the electrical contractor there as an apprentice. The 392nd BG group with their […]
