Aviation History

NEW HOME FOR SAIGON LADY

s his country collapsed in August 1975, South Vietnamese air force pilot Pham Quang Khiem spirited his entire family and closest friends—more than 50 people—to safety in Singapore aboard a Lockheed C-130A Hercules. It was

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