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An auxiliary airfield was built at Port Isabel, Texas to support training and flight operations at Harlingen. Training was conducted in air-to-air & air-to-surface gunnery; air-to-air training used a variety of aircraft, including AT-6 Texans, BT-13 Valiants, P-63 Kingcobras, B-17 Flying Fortresses, B-26 Marauder [5] and B-24 Liberators. For ...
Under the plan, the X-15 was to be carried to 40,000 feet (12,000 m) above Utah's Wendover Air Force Base by a B-52 jet, then separate and ignite rocket fuel to climb into space. Crossfield was one of seven X-15 astronauts, as was Neil A. Armstrong. The X-15 would be tested by Crossfield in March, but would not be launched into space.
Cox Army Air Field: Cox Field: Culver Army Air Field [6] Leon Valley Texas: Dalhart Army Air Field: Dalhart Municipal Airport: Dodd Field: Fort Sam Houston: Duncan Field: Kelly Air Force Base: Eagle Pass Army Air Field: Maverick County Memorial International Airport: El Paso Army Air Field: El Paso International Airport: Ellington Field ...
"The Charleston Air Base public information officer said the aircraft was on a regular transport mission to the U.S. Air Force Base at Dhahran, which is leased from Saudi Arabia and is one of the global chain of strategic bases." [271] It was one of three flying into Dhahran from Tripoli, Libya, an eleven-hour flight. [272]
From 1947–48 to 1960, Trans-Texas Airways (TTa) Douglas DC-3s served Harlingen Air Force Base under a joint civil-military airport agreement; in 1960, Harvey Richards Field received a new 4900-ft runway, and TTa moved their operations there until the airline moved its flights back to the former air force base following Hurricane Beulah.
June 16 – North Korean Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17s (NATO reporting name "Fresco") attack a United States Navy P4M-1Q Mercator off the coast of North Korea. The Mercator ' s crew returns the aircraft safely to Japan. [17] June 30 – A U.S. Air Force North American F-100 Super Sabre fighter suffers an in-flight engine fire over Okinawa.
Opened: January 1942, closed: February 1946 (AT-6, AT-11, AT-18, B-24, RP-39Q) [3] Used modified AT-6s (later RP-39Qs) as air gunnery targets; closed February 1946; reopened as Harlingen Air Force Base, 1950; closed 1962 Laredo Army Airfield, Laredo, Texas AAF Gunnery School (Flexible) 2d Aerial Gunnery Training Group
With the assistance of the USAAF, aerial scenes featured North American T-6 Texan and Beech AT-11 Kansan trainers at Harlingen Air Force Base, and Lockheed B-34 Lexington bombers. The use of operational aircraft lent an air of authenticity to this low-budget B film feature, although a number of ground scenes that were later added had to rely on ...