Capt. Charles W. Maultsby, far left, was a member of the Air Force's top tactical fighter team for supersonic weapons in an October 1958 competition at Nevada's Nellis Air Force Base. Maultsby and other top pilots competed in air to air combat and ground bombing in the use of nuclear weapons. Four years later, Maultsby piloted a U-2 spy plane from Alaska's Eielson Air Force Base to the North Pole and mistakenly drifted into Soviet air space at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The incident captured the attention of President John Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Maultsby died of cancer in 1998. (Photo courtesy of National Archives)
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