Portfolio #08 - Don Logan

	B-1B 85-0079/DY from the 7th Bomb Wing at Dyess AFB, Texas. Photographed March 10 2000. Nikon 2000 50mm K64		AT-38B 61-0904/ED from the Edwards AFB based 412th Test Wing. As opposed to normal T-38's the AT-38's have a centerline pylon and gunsite, these being the only White AT-38Bs in USAF service. Photographed June 2000. Nikon 2000 50mm K64
	Transient EA-6B 163046/NL-670 from VAQ-138 'Golden Intruders' shot May 2 1998 at Cannon AFB New Mexico for Retirement of last EF-111A. Nikon 2000 50mm K64		F-16D 78-0080/ED phtographed in the new all white scheme on June 22, 2000. New scheme being applied to all 412th TW Support Aircraft - No longer will have the Red Tail. Nikon 2000 50mm K64
	F-4J 153900/AG-100 from VF102 at NAS Miramar December 3 1977. Pentax Spotmatic II 50mm K64		Two F-4Cs from the 8th TFW at Ubon RTAFB refuel over Southern Laos during a Combat Mission May 1972. Pentax Spotmatic II 50mm K64

After graduating from California State University-Northridge with a BA degree in History, Don Logan joined the USAF in August of 1969. He flew as an F-4E Weapon Systems Officer (WSO), stationed at Korat RTAFB in Thailand, flying 133 combat missions over North and South Vietnam, and Laos before being shot down over North Vietnam on July 5 1972, and spent nine months as a POW in Hanoi North Vietnam. As a result of missions flown in Southeast Asia, he received the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with twelve oak leaf clusters, and the Purple Heart. After his return to the U.S., he was assigned to Nellis AFB where he flew as a rightseater in the F-111A. He left the Air Force at the end of February 1977.

During 1977 Don went to work for North American Aircraft Division of Rockwell International, in Los Angeles, as the Editor of the Flight Manuals for B-1A #3 and B-1A #4. Following the cancellation of the B-1A production, he continued in publications at Northrop Aircraft as a fire control and ECM systems maintenance manual writer on the F-5 program.

In October of 1978 he started his employment at Boeing in Wichita, Kansas as a Flight Manual/Weapon Delivery manual writer on the B-52 OAS/CMI (Offensive Avionics System/Cruise Missile Integration) program. Don was made the Lead Editor of the B-1B Flight and Weapon Delivery manuals to be written by Boeing (OSO and DSO Flight Manuals, and all aircrew weapon delivery manuals). He developed the Flight Manual for the E-8A JOINT Stars aircraft, and the Flight/Weapon Delivery manuals for the Boeing NWDS (Navigation and Weapon Delivery System) installed in the RF-4C and F-4E. He is presently the editor for Boeing's B-52H and B-1B Flight and Weapon Delivery Manuals.

Don is the author of nine books on USAF subjects:
"The B-1B SAC's Last Bomber" "The 388th Tactical Fighter Wing at Korat RTAFB -1972" "Northrop's T-38, A Pictorial History" "Northrop's YF-17 Cobra" "A-10 Thunderbol II- A Pictorial History" "C-135 Series - Boeing's Stratotanker and Stratolifter" "General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark" "ACC Bomber Triad - The B-1B, B-2 and B-52" and his latest book "USAF F-15 Eagles - Units, Colors and Markings"