I am going to answer the question, “Who is Coolstone”? The answer is not as simple as one might think. I can say with 100% accuracy that he is my dad, Roger G. Crewse. My dad was a United States Air Force Command Pilot with over 4,500 hours of flying time, the...

In October of 1958, Roger G. Crewse became the First Editor of the Interceptor magazine.  Over the next 90 days, Roger along with two fighter pilots, Harry Tindale and John Lane, Craig Schafer, and SSgt Rolf Docterman, top-notch illustrators, TSgt Nick Zetta managing...

Coolstone Does A Pitchelmann is a humorous story about what happens when you do a Pitch Up in an F-101.This is a picture of Roger G. Crewse, my Dad, with Lt. Colonel Deakins after a Voodoo ride in 1975. This ride was in conjunction with his briefing the Canadian...

For Pilots Only. This memorandum from General Bryce Poe II, a United States Air Force four-star general who served as Commander Air Force Logistics Command from 1978 to 1981, was written after my Dad’s article “For Pilots Only” ran in the January 1980 Aerospace Safety...

Night Flight is a true story written by my Dad, Roger G Crewse about the end of a nighttime flight in the middle of winter during the Korean War. They had attempted to land at two other air bases but the visibility was so low they could not see the runway. The photo...

The text below is the best introduction to his article "give it lots of Lovin Care", taken from the Interceptor magazine of March 1972. This article describes the flat spin recovery that he developed and briefed to all the F-106 squadrons. Since taking over as Chief...