“Cherokee 47540, Palo Alto Tower. Cleared for take off.” And with that it was Lights-Camera-Action….Landing lights and Strobes on. Transponder to Alt. And mixture and throttle to full. Lights-Camera-Action. Roll down the runway, pull back on the yoke at 55 kts, a lil right rudder to compensate for the torque of the engine, and then [...]

Yesterday approximately 30 Air National Guardsmen from the 129th Rescue Wing based at Moffett Field, CA boarded two MC-130Ps and left behind their friends, family and coworkers and headed off to Djibouti, Africa. While heartbreaking for their families, these brave Guardsmen deployed to provide combat search and rescue support for Combined Joint Task Force Horn [...]