Boeing MB-3A AS.68264 "The Hawk" US Army Air Service and crews developed specialized cold-weather

and crews developed specialized cold-weather operating techniques to keep their aircraft flying year-round

Tasked with transitioning pilots onto the Corsair II and preparing them for assignment to operational units worldwide

and light training roles across Japan's home islands throughout the Cold War era

assuming the role once performed by the Apollo-era EC-135 ARIA (Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft) — providing airborne telemetry and communications relay support for NASA's Artemis Program

Boeing MB-3A AS.68264 "The Hawk" US Army Air Service and crews developed specialized cold-weatherThese are 1 72 scale decals for Boeing built MB 3A AS. 68264 "The Hawk", the personal aircraft of Brigadier General Billy Mitchell, United States Army Air Service. Billy Mitchell was the most outspoken and visionary advocate for air power in American military history. As Assistant Chief of the Air Service in the early 1920s, he championed the strategic potential of military aviation at a time when the Army and Navy establishment largely dismissed it.