Tom Dozier

03/02/2026

03/02/2026

P-51 Mustangs Taxi Out

01/03/2026

The air battles above my house in Lone Pine range from simple engagements at 50 feet, to above 20,000.

08/12/2025

I found the old TV show, called Steve Canyon, from 1959 on streaming and its like a remake of life when I was a kid. My dad was involved in flight test and weapons development at NOTC China Lake at that very same time and all the old footage, no CGI, brings back a lot of memories. The very first episode a pilot is lost due to oxygen depletion, which is exactly one of my first memories. Another episode is about a group of s**t hot pilots with their own way of doing things called the J Birds. In 1956, dad helped write and act in another film for the USAF featuring a group of s**t hot pilots who did things their own way, it was called, Of How They Flew, and they were called, The 498TH FIS, The Geiger Tigers. The Steve Canyon episodes certainly seem very similar to the characters I grew up around.

08/02/2025

My first flight suit, but not my first jet. F-106 at Larsen AFB, 1956-57. Right after this, photo, dad was reassigned to Lockheed Palmdale, as the G.E. J-79 Field Tech Rep, F-104 Starfighter development and flight test program.

07/28/2025

03/09/2025

The other day as I parked I noticed 2 old guys were walking across the parking lot talking and looked in the direction of my car. I parked and they walked pass. I get out and walk around the back of the car to go in Petsmart. These two old black men about 30 feet in front of me, looked at each other, took a step to get in unison, snapped to reverse into attention as sharp as these old guys once did on the parade grounds, and saluted me. It took a second to put it together but they were saluting my Marine Corps emblem on my back window. Of course I reciprocated the gesture to them. I was never able to become a marine but I did volunteer for over 20 Years where I helped my father found the Brig. General J Hubbard Aviation Museum at MCAS El Toro , Home of the Third Marine Air wing. General Jay Hubbard, the museums namesake, called me over to the parking lot one day and handed me the first of a series now of the Marine Corps emblem decal on my vehicle. He gave me that in 1992 and said to always display it with respect. I have General.
I guess once in a while a couple of old black men in a parking lot feel it too.

01/17/2025

This is the original production tag from the Douglas M2 Biplane on display in the Smithsonian. My dad was on the restoration and presentation team and this was in his belongings left to me.

12/25/2024

Rob Harrison, The Tumbling Bear, over the top on the back loop of a Cuban 8 at the Apple Valley Airshow 2024.

12/21/2024

Tumbling Bear at the Apple Valley Air Show 2024.
Come along and sit behind Rob Harrison as he takes the Zlin-142C through its paces at the Apple Valley Airshow.
I have flown numerous practice flights with Rob doing this aerobatic routine. We routinely pull 6+ positive G and 2 negative G and you can see when Rob/we experience negative G, gravity trying to throw you out of the airplane, by watching Rob or the seat straps on the right seat. When they fly up, it's negative G.