Developed at a turning point in air-to-air combat, the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile was the world’s first infrared-guided or heat-seeking missile, forever changing not only the dynamics of dog fighting, but the ways in which combat aircraft are designed, built, and employed in war.
Capt. William 'Deak' Parsons/Courtesy photo BY SHARON SNYDERLos Alamos Historical Society "Captain Deak Parsons New Mexico's Homegrown Atomic Admiral" will be the April lecture for the Los Alamos Historical Society, presented by acclaimed local historian Nancy Bartlit. An expert on the Pacific War during World War II, Bartlit has researched Parsons and his duty as the…
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