The Missouri Aviation Historical Society was thrilled to formally hold a fiftieth anniversary celebration of the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation’s Project Gemini program on Thursday, June 18th. Designed and built in St. Louis, Missouri, project Gemini became one of the most important aspects of the NASA space program. Held as a direct sequel to our Project Mercury celebration in 2013, former engineers and communication experts re-joined together for a live Q&A panel […]
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The Missouri Aviation Historical Society is proud to bring back it’s quarterly newsletter! Under a new name ‘Middle Marker’, this newsletter will be posted to give you the current update on society news, aviation reviews, and upcoming events. You can download your FREE COPY here! Want to contribute for our next issue? Just contact Dan or Albert and let them know, the current deadline is May 1st, 2014. Contact information for […]
From MOAVHIST member Joe Gurney: I recently presented a lecture/video presentation about the Thunderbirds History from 1953 through 2013, their beginning at Luke AFB just to the West of Phoenix, Az in May-June 1953. Their first public airshow flying the Republic F-84G Thunderjet was some 3 weeks later at Williams AFB, AZ just East of Phoenix and home of the former “Acrojets” demo team. The original team members included identical twin […]