Sierra Hotel Blog
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...
Continue reading
Northrop Grumman Corporation along with the United States Air Force made history when they made the first ever publicly televised roll out of their new cutting edge, and highly secretive B-21 Raider on December 2nd 2022 At 8pm pacific...
Continue reading
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...
Continue reading
June 26th 1981; The EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle APC is first utilized in a secret extraction operation inside Czechoslovakian borders. The crisis began to unfold when several American military personnel inadvertently crossed through the Czech border, and in a desperate...
Continue reading
Bruce W. Carr was born on January 28th, 1924, in Union Springs, New York. Bruce got an early start in his flight training at the young age of 15, then a few years later, he enlisted into the United States...
Continue reading
