Articles written by Tom Morris

Tom Morris|Nov 7, 2015

As an aviation buff, I have always had a great interest in the aircraft produced by the North American Aviation company. My father was an aeronautical engineer and had involvement with many of the WW ll fighters and bombers produced between 1939 and 1944. He is probably the only man that sat in, ran up and signed off on all twenty four B-25B bombers for the Doolittle Raid in April 1942 in which sixteen were used. As a teenager, I was told the stories of the X-15 at Edwards AFB and a new mach 3...