Aviation History

MILESTONES JUST DROPPING IN

Just after midnight on February 17, 1974, 20-year-old Private Robert K. Preston drove to a restricted airfield at Fort Meade, Maryland, where he served as a helicopter mechanic. There he jumped into a Bell UH-1B Iroquois helicopter and took off

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