COLLECTING RADIOACTIVE CLOUD SAMPLES

Barney M. Landry Jr., born in 1928, followed in his father’s footsteps; his father was a WWI aviator. Barney received a Congressional Appointment to West Point. He graduated and was commissioned into the USAF, Class of 1951. Landry entered USAF Flight School Class 52E (Greenville AFB, MS and Reese AFB, TX and received pilots wings in August 1952. He was assigned to the Air Defense Command at McGhee Tyson AFB in Tennessee and completed Jet Transition School at Craig AFB in Alabama. There he began flying the F-86 Sabre and later transferred to the 18th Fighter Wing, K-55 AFB, in Korea in 1954. Following Korean armistice, he relocated to Kadena AFB in Okinawa, Japan before returning to the US in 1955. It was at this time that he was assigned to the 4926th Test Squadron (Atomic). Following his days of cloud sampling, Landry transferred to the USAF Reserve and began a 33 year career as a development engineer at GE Jet Engines in Cincinnati. He retired in 1989 and continues to tell his stories while residing in Fairfield Township.

All aviation lectures are free and open to the public; donations to WACO Air Museum are gladly accepted. Lectures are held in the Willis Wing of the WACO Air Museum at 1865 South County Road 25A in Troy, OH. Doors open at 6:30 and the program begins at 7 p.m. Programs are scheduled to last one hour with questions to follow. For questions, please call 937-335-9226 or visit www.wacoairmuseum.org.