Photo by Bradley Hicks | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 09.19.2023
The static F-105 Thunderchief on display outside the main gate at Arnold Air Force Base, Tenn., is dedicated to Lt. Gen. Robert Bond. He was killed on April 26, 1984, when the aircraft he was piloting crashed at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. The display was dedicated in memory of Bond during a Nov. 9, 1984, ceremony. It was the first static display to be dedicated at Arnold. (U.S. Air Force......
Photo by Bradley Hicks | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 09.19.2023
The static F-105 Thunderchief on display outside the main gate at Arnold Air Force Base, Tenn., is dedicated to Lt. Gen. Robert Bond. He was killed on April 26, 1984, when the aircraft he was piloting crashed at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. The display was dedicated in memory of Bond during a Nov. 9, 1984, ceremony. It was the first static display to be dedicated at Arnold. (U.S. Air Force......
Photo by Bradley Hicks | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 09.19.2023
The static F-105 Thunderchief on display outside the main gate at Arnold Air Force Base, Tenn., is dedicated to Lt. Gen. Robert Bond. He was killed on April 26, 1984, when the aircraft he was piloting crashed at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. The display was dedicated in memory of Bond during a Nov. 9, 1984, ceremony. It was the first static display to be dedicated at Arnold. (U.S. Air Force......
Courtesy Photo | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 09.19.2023
Lt. Gen. Robert Bond, center, visits with fellow attendees of the Arnold Engineering Development Center 1984 Dining-Out held at the Officers’ Open Mess at Arnold Air Force Base, Tenn. Bond, then vice commander of Air Force Systems Command, was a frequent visitor to Arnold. The static F-105 Thunderchief on display outside the Main Gate at Arnold AFB is dedicated to Bond, who was killed on......
Courtesy Photo | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 09.19.2023
Betty Bond, center, widow of Lt. Gen. Robert Bond, and daughter Pamela Bond Lunger help then-Arnold Engineering Development Complex Commander Col. Philip Conran unveil the bronze plaque dedicating the static display F-105 Thunderchief to Bond Nov. 9, 1984. The static display is located at the Main Gate of Arnold Air Force Base, Tenn., headquarters of AEDC. Bond was killed on April 26, 1984,......
Courtesy Photo | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 09.19.2023
The F-105 Thunderchief now on display at the Main Gate of Arnold Air Force Base, Tenn., is silhouetted against the setting sun as it approaches the Arnold AFB airstrip for its final landing in early 1984. The plane was assigned for several years to the 18th Tactical Air Command Fighter Squadron based at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan. After that assignment, it became part of the 419th......
Courtesy Photo | Arnold Engineering Development Complex | 09.19.2023
Lt. Gen. Robert Bond (U.S. Air Force photo)
Courtesy Photo | Allied Joint Force Command Naples | 11.02.2018
A Spanish sailor takes a bearing of the Amphibious Task force vessels , while on duty at the bridge of Spanish frigate ESPS Cristobal Colon during NATO's Exercise Trident Juncture 18 on November 2, 2018. Trident Juncture 18 is designed to ensure that NATO forces are trained, able to operate together and ready to respond to any threat from any direction. Trident Juncture 18 takes place in......
