‘Yes, I Can’
The first Coast Guard swimmer lifesaving mission unfolded on 10 December 1987, when at 1936 a 26-foot fishing vessel named the
Bluebird requested assistance. The duty helicopter crew at Coast Guard Air Station Sitka, Alaska, quickly boarded HH–3F number 1486 and prepared to fly directly into a quickly developing storm at near-hurricane strength. Lieutenant Commander John Whiddon, Lieutenant Greg Breithaupt, Aviation Machinist’s Mate First Class Carl Saylor, Aviation Electronics Mechanic Third Class Mark Milne, and Aviation Support Equipment Technician Mechanical Second Class Jeff Tunks were airborne in 17 minutes, immediately buffeted by 60-knot winds, snow, and ice.
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Alexander P. de Seversky and the Quest For Air Power, James K. Libbey, 2013, ISBN 978-1-61234-179-8, 348 pp.
Professor James Libbey is retired from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University having a great amount of expertise in aviation history as well as Russian-American relations. His research is stellar as are his travels in developing the writing of this biography of an embarrassingly barely known and incredibly unsung developer of aviation progress as well as, ultimately, the U.S. Air Force. Written six years earlier than his
Foundations of Russian Military Flight, 1885-1925 (https://travelforaircraft.wordpress.com/2020/11/21/foundations-of-russian-military-flight-1885-1925/) it reads as he must have lectured which does not translate as well, at times, since the associated inflection of speech and expression of body language are absent. This book is a trove of information as well as insight, howe