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OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- An exhibit featuring personal archives and memorabilia of a former NASA astronaut is on display in Oshkosh. A ribbon cuttin...

Engle with the X-15A-2 aircraft in 1965. NASA photo PRESS RELEASE -The personal archives and memorabilia of astronaut Joe Engle, the only person to participate in the X-15, Apollo, and space shuttle programs, will go on display at the EAA Aviation Museum on June 4, after Joe and Jeanie Engle donated the collection to the EAA Aviation Foundation in 2020. The Engles will participate in a brief dedication and ribbon cutting for the display, adjacent to The Borman Collection on the museum’s main level, honoring Gemini and Apollo astronaut Frank Borman. It further exemplifies the connection betw...

Colonel Edwin Carraway “E.C.” Newman II, 80, an Air Force fighter pilot and test pilot, "slipped the surly bonds of earth" for the final time on April 7, 2021 after a valiant fight with an aggressive form of multiple myeloma, attributed to Agent Orange exposure in Vietnam. E.C. was born in 1940 and raised in rural Sampson County, NC. In 1958, he graduated from Clinton High School, waved good-bye to the tobacco fields, and left the family farm for the U.S. Air Force Academy. In 1959, he played center in the first ever Air Force-Army football game, a 13-13 tie in Yankee Stadium. He gr...

Tales From The Cockpit: Formation Aerobatics With The F-104 Starfighter Tales From The Cockpit: Formation Aerobatics With The F-104 Starfighter The thrills of formation aerobatics in the legendary F-104 Starfighter. Here I am, in the cockpit of an F-104G of the 28° Gruppo (Squadron) belonging to the 3° Stormo (Wing), of the Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force) working my butt off to maintain position while “il Nonno” [Italian for “The Grandpa”, the pilot’s nickname] is sewing the sky above Villafranca Air Base with a series of aerobatic maneuvers that the Frecce Tricolori (the...

3 weeks ago Experts from NASA, U.S. Air Force, JPL, Tesla and more serve as Slingshot Aerospace’s Advisors AUSTIN, Texas & EL SEGUNDO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Slingshot Aerospace, Inc., a leader in situational awareness technology, announced today its Board of Advisors including Chuck Beames, Karen Diener, Susan Helms, Moriba Jah, Keith Masback, Chris Mattmann, and Marissa Peretz. The Board of Advisors provides the Slingshot Aerospace leadership team with counsel, advice, and support for all areas of the business. “Our advisory board members are industry...