Remembering Birmingham’s Richard Macon

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Remembering Birmingham’s Richard Macon

On a bet, Richard Macon, a Birmingham native andgraduate of Miles College in Fairfield, AL with abachelor’s degree in mathematics, took the entranceexams for the U. […]
January 1, 2022

Remembering Walter Ray, CIA Pilot
Tragic Crash of an Lockheed A-12 • A New Blackbird? Air America CIA Pilot • Visits Museum

n January 5, 1967, a sister-ship of our museum’sLockheed A-12 (Article 131) was returning from atraining flight to the now well-known CIA’s advancedaviation research facility base […]
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On a bet, Richard Macon, a Birmingham native and
graduate of Miles College in Fairfield, AL with a
bachelor’s degree in mathematics, took the entrance
exams for the U. S. Army Air Force. He passed,
graduating from flight training on Feb. 8, 1944, at
Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama. He soon
deployed to Italy with the 302nd Fighter Squadron.

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