Legion Pod Gives Air Force New Capability

Legion Pod Gives Air Force New Capability

  Development of modern stealth technologies in the United States began in 1958, when earlier attempts to prevent radar tracking of its U-2 spy planes during the Cold War by the Soviet Union had been unsuccessful.  “Radar” which is short for RAdio Detection And...
There I was…swapping aircraft again

There I was…swapping aircraft again

In the late-1970s, I was in the Air Force assigned as an ATOC duty officer at Yokota Air Base, Japan.  ATOC was officially the “Air Terminal Operations Center” but everyone called it ATOC. My job as a duty officer was to coordinate services for arriving and departing...