Tag: pilot
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Colorado Springs-based Falcon AeroLab helps students discover the skies
Mitchell and Doherty High School students climbed into single-engine planes Wednesday morning for a smooth ride through a clear morning — flights that instructors hope will inspire a lifelong love of flying. Doherty High School junior Erin Manchester was among 13 students who went flying with Falcon AeroLab instructors and she got the chance to…
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NEWS | Navy pilot tracking unidentified aerial phenomena
Navy pilot tracking unidentified aerial phenomena (Video courtesy U.S. Navy)
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Air Force Academy’s first Black superintendent looks to pay it forward at his alma mater
Separated shoulders from three years as linebacker and a senior season as nose guard nearly kept then-cadet Richard Clark from pilot training and a career in the skies. That is until Air Force Academy superintendent Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott Jr. — who lead the academy from 1983-1987 — stepped in. Scott flew F-51 Mustangs during the Korean…