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6 Facts About National Aviation Day and Celebrating Flight
August 19 is National Aviation Day In 1946, Congress established National Aviation Day "to commemorate the Wright brothers’ first successful flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903.” The Wright brothers successfully made the first powered flight in...
Happy 40th Anniversary, Duotech Services!
Today, May 5, 2022, is the 40th anniversary of Duotech Services, LLC - an Aerospace and Defense company located in Franklin, NC. Since its founding by Dan and Cheryl Rogers in 1982, our company has grown to be one of the most successful companies in the western part...
ARGUS Radar Warning Receiver Has First International Deliveries
Marking a major milestone, Duotech's ARGUS RWR has been sold internationally for the first time. ARGUS is a highly affordable digital threat detection system designed for a variety of platforms and applications. This solution provides calibration methods to utilize...
DSI Awarded Outstanding Repair Facility Award for 2021
Duotech Services, Inc receives the Outstanding Repair Facility Award for 2021 from Federal Defense Industries (FDI). Working with FDI, Duotech Services received the award for outstanding performance by a repair facility in the Aircraft Equipment & Parts category....
The Odd Looking Ultra Hump-back Tactical Fighter/Bomber
The 1950s and 1960s were a busy time for U.S. fighter jet development. Aircraft like the P-80 Shooting Star, introduced in 1945, brought America into the jet age. The war in Korea demanded even quicker, more agile fighters to stem the heavy U.S. losses of P-80s to...
Jet Friday: What Is The Pilot Doing During A Carrier Landing
There are many cockpit videos of jet aircraft performing missions, like destroying a moving ground target, evading a SAM in an F-16, or flying in tight formation as part of the Blue Angels demonstration team. Even we are guilty of overindulging in sharing exhilarating...
Hunter Killers – Anti-Submarine Warfare and Maritime Surveillance Aircraft
It’s low light, and the blue sky melts into brilliant oranges and pinks as the sun sets low on the ocean’s horizon. The silhouette of a very large cargo ship sails quietly across the sea, fourteen miles out of the Port of Charleston (SC) on its way to destinations...
Jet Friday – Strange and Unusual – The Soviet Union’s VVA-14
Cruising silently off the coast of northeastern Russia, a very unique weapon patrols the deep, dark, cold waters of the East Siberian Sea. Launched in December of 1959, the USS George Washington (SSBN-598), a nuclear-powered submarine, is the first of its kind to...
WP-3D and WC-130 Flying Into The Storm
Hurricane Hunter Aircraft In the Atlantic Ocean, they are called hurricanes. In the Pacific, typhoons. When they are approaching the United States, not everyone is trying to avoid the storm. Some men and women jump into aircraft and fly directly into the storm...for...
Working and Living on a U.S. Submarine
Previously, we’ve shared articles about aircraft carriers and fighter aircraft taking off from carriers. One example of this is our Working and Living on a U.S. Aircraft Carrier, which includes links to videos from the Carl Vinson, Nimitz, and Roosevelt. These...
Barrel Roll Over A Russian Bear
In 1986, we had TOPGUN the movie, an action drama about Naval aviators attending the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program commonly referred to as TOPGUN. In it, the star Maverick, played by Tom Cruise, explains to an astrophysicist civilian...
Duotech’s Airborne Radar Test Platform Has Arrived
On June 5, 2021, Dan Bader, COO of Duotech Services, arrived at the Macon County Airport (1A5) with Duotech Services' latest radar system testing platform, a Cessna 425 Conquest 1. The weather was perfect for the midday landing at 1A5 located in Franklin, NC. When the...
