Cash enlisted in the Air Force on July 7, 1950, shortly after the start
of the Korean War and served till he was honorably discharged in
1954.
John R. Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003)
Cash died of complications from diabetes at age 71,less than
four months after his wife June.
The Thunderbirds, a demonstration squadron of the United
States Air Force, are assigned to the 57th Wing, and are
based at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Created 71 years
ago in 1953, the USAF Thunderbirds are the third-oldest
formal flying aerobatic team (under the same name) in the
world.
The Thunderbirds perform the Diamond Pass-In-Review.
Performing a calypso pass.
The Delta Burst.
MCMINNVILLE, Ore. (KATU) — The Oregon International Air Show
is back in McMinnville for the Labor Day weekend.
It marks the return of the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds.
The high-flying action runs Saturday through Monday at the
McMinnville Airport.
Gates open at 9 a.m. and the show starts around noon.
Wilbert (Bill) Francisco Cobbs (June 16, 1934 – June 25, 2024)
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Cobbs is known for such film roles as
Louisiana Slim in The Hitter (1979), Walter in The Brother from
Another Planet (1984), Reginald in Night at the Museum (2006)
and Master Tinker on Oz the Great and Powerful (2013).
He made his feature film debut in The Taking of Pelham One
Two Three in 1974. His role…(man on platform).
Bill Cobbs served in the U.S. Air Force as a radar technician for
eight years.
On June 24, 1997, U.S. Air Force officials released a 231-page
report dismissing long-standing claims of an alien spacecraft
crash in Roswell, New Mexico, almost exactly 50 years earlier.
Public interest in Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs, began
to flourish in the 1940s, when developments in space travel
and the dawn of the atomic age caused many Americans to
turn their attention to the skies.
The town of Roswell near the Pecos River in southeastern
New Mexico became a magnet for UFO believers due to the
strange events of early July 1947, when ranch foreman W.W.
Brazel found a strange, shiny material scattered over some
of his land. He turned the material over to the sheriff, who
passed it on to authorities at the nearby Air Force base.
On July 8, Air Force officials announced they had recovered the wreckage of a “flying disk.” A local newspaper put the story on
its front page, launching Roswell into the spotlight of the public’s
UFO fascination.
Roswell base intel officer Major Jesse Marcel (above) has claimed he was forced to pose before reporters with the
weather-balloon debris he did not witness at the Roswell
UFO crash site.
On January 15, 2009, a potential disaster turned into a heroic
display of skill and composure when Captain Chesley Burnett Sullenberger III and co-pilot Jeffrey Skiles safely land the
plane they were piloting on New York City’s Hudson River
after a bird strike caused its engines to fail. David Paterson,
governor of New York at the time, dubbed the incident the
“miracle on the Hudson.”
Sullenberger, a former Air Force fighter pilot with decades of
flying experience, received a slew of honors for his actions,
including an invitation to Barack Obama’s presidential
inauguration and resolutions of praise from the U.S.
Congress.
Captain Chesley Burnett Sullenberger III and co-pilot Jeffrey Skiles.
Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger III will
turn 73 on January 23rd.
The incident was adapted into the feature film
Sully, directed by Clint Eastwood. It starred Tom
Hanks as Sullenberger and Aaron Eckhart as
Skiles. It was released by Warner Bros. on
September 9, 2016.
