USAF_Flight_Check
17th Sep 2013, 21:28
Check out the new Facebook Fan Page dedicated to US Air Force Flight Check (also know as flight inspection or calibration). Flight Check is responsible for ensuring that navaids, radars, and ATC communications are safe and reliable for use in IMC.
I have started a Facebook Page on USAF Flight Check at https://www.facebook.com/USAF.Flight.Check. Please Like the Page if you have a Facebook account.
I have also started a website at usafflightcheck.com (http://usafflightcheck.com/)
I was in the Air Force Flight Check for 14 years. Military Flight Check has been around since before WWII. I am trying to catalog the history.
I’ve already included some pages on the B-47 (yes the six engine bomber) that was used for high altitude flight inspection before the CAA/FAA had anything that could fly that high as well as an article on the first MOBILE ILS that was deployed in 1944.
Flight Check also flew during Viet Nam from 1963-1975. They checked navaids and radars in S Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand. Some missions were even into North Viet Nam. They went places where Americans were not officially at…think Air America type operations.
Please feel free to pass this around and tell others.
I have started a Facebook Page on USAF Flight Check at https://www.facebook.com/USAF.Flight.Check. Please Like the Page if you have a Facebook account.
I have also started a website at usafflightcheck.com (http://usafflightcheck.com/)
I was in the Air Force Flight Check for 14 years. Military Flight Check has been around since before WWII. I am trying to catalog the history.
I’ve already included some pages on the B-47 (yes the six engine bomber) that was used for high altitude flight inspection before the CAA/FAA had anything that could fly that high as well as an article on the first MOBILE ILS that was deployed in 1944.
Flight Check also flew during Viet Nam from 1963-1975. They checked navaids and radars in S Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand. Some missions were even into North Viet Nam. They went places where Americans were not officially at…think Air America type operations.
Please feel free to pass this around and tell others.