As soon as I left school at 16, I worked in a factory making aircraft components.
You cannot make an aircraft without forged components.
Japan hosts more forward-deployed U.S. troops than any other country and serves as home port for our only forward-deployed aircraft carrier. In 2011, when a tsunami devastated Japan and created the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear facility, the United States stood shoulder-to-shoulder with our Japanese allies to respond and rebuild.
Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.
During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a crash site. He presented photographs showing himself in company with others digging around obvious aircraft debris.
I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.
At various times over 20 years, I did preliminary designs for aircraft like the Stratolaunch. For that whole time I was encouraging us to do something that almost everyone else felt you could not do.
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
American values don't begin and end with destroyers and aircraft carriers.
The threat from unmanned aircraft systems in the U.S. is steadily escalating.
