Sierra Hotel Blog

  On the night before Christmas my ship was at sea, A big flat-top "bird farm" from the land of the free.Cruising the ocean at "the tip of the spear",So everyone home could sleep sound with no fear.Flight ops had...

December 4th 1959; Ensign Albert Joe Hickman of Fighter Squadron 121 was returning from carrier practice off the coast of California.  After a successful training flight, Hickman was guiding his McDonnell F3H-2N Demon swept-wing all-weather interceptor through 1500 feet onto final...

July 4th 1989 Colonel Nikolai Skuridin departed Bagicz airbase located near Kolobrzeg Poland on a MiG-23M, an aircraft simply known to the West as "The Flogger" a nuclear capable variable-geometry single engine Soviet 3rd generation Fighter.   During take off...