America's Flyways Magazine

cover July Feature Story:
Flying with the 139th Airlift Wing

Story by Jan Hoynacki

It’s been just a little more than 48 hours since I was one of 18 civilian guests flying above St. Joseph, Mo., at 2,000' MSL with the back of the C-130H wide open to the cloudless, hot summer air over northwest Missouri. The fact that I was actually in an Air National Guard plane on an actual military exercise still seems hard to believe. But the greatest impression of all from the day’s adventure is marked indelibly in my mind—the total professionalism and superb quality of our National Guardsmen (and women!). … Read the Story