Welcome to Gen. Cardenas' website.

Here you can read the General’s biography, see
some of the aircraft he flew during his career and buy a special limited edition series, or individually, a collage of aircraft and his career.

The General served as a B-24 bomber pilot during WWII, being shot down and an evadee.

He then test flew captured german aircraft like the Arado 234 at Wright Pat after WWII.

While there he was the Chief Test Pilot for the YB-49 Flying Wing, turning the program over to Glen Edwards when called to be the Operations Officer in Charge and pilot of the B-29 that would later drop the Bell X-1 on the first supersonic flight.