Ed Yielding

Mitchell Institute Fellows; AFA social media takeover.

A new award to be administered in 2020 by the Air Force Association.

It was a record-setter. Congress voted in late 1989 to retire the SR-71 Blackbird. Soon thereafter, the Smithsonian Institution requested one of the triple-sonic reconnaissance aircraft for display. Reconnaissance System Officer Joseph “J. T.” Vida and I had been flying...