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Time to see the ‘Doc’

Video July 28, 2019 Hutchins AAron

These USAF pics of Boeing B-29 Superfortress ‘Doc’ were taken at the Wings over Whitman Air & Space Show, in Missouri, 14JUN2019. You didn’t have to worry about that new fangled stall software grounding all those Boeing airliners today.

Flight engineer station.

You know what kind of grin that is!

Video, B-29 Doc taxis-in, Whiteman, 09JUN2019:

Video from June 2017, McConnell AFB, Kansas, B-29 take-off, co-piloted by Brigadier General Paul W. Tibbets the Fourth, grandson of the pilot who flew the Enola Gay:

Official video report, after 60 years B-29 Doc comes back from the dead:

Restoration efforts, 2014.

B-29 NAVIGATOR: “WOULD I EVEN BE ALIVE TO EAT THE SANDWICH I SAVED?”

U.S.

1942 Ford firetruck returns to service with the USAF!

Video July 24, 2019 Hutchins AAron

In March 2019, after years of restoration by a dedicated retired Airman, a 1942 Ford firetruck was returned to service at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.

The truck was one of the first two firetrucks to be assigned at Seymour Johnson Field when the base opened in 1942.

2016 CHUBBUCK DAYS MASS BAPTISM BY FIRE….TRUCK!

REVELL 1937 FORD PICKUP OR WHY MODEL ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS CAN BE WRONG!

11 AUGUST 2012: BUSIEST CHUBBUCK DAYS EVER! DOGS, CARS, FIRE TRUCKS

Kit Bashing

Model kit EC-130J gets special handling by National Guard!

Video July 17, 2019 Hutchins AAron

A real 193rd Special Operations Wing EC-130J Commando Solo, October 2020. Air National Guard photo by Munnaf Joarder.

In April 2019, Pennsylvania’s 193rd Special Operations Wing’s Fabrication Shop recently was given the opportunity to repaint the EC-130J Commando Solo aircraft model outside the wing HQ building.

Video of repairs to model that has been on display since 2006:

Kit Bashing:

USAF photo by Airman First Class Thomas Charlton.

WORLD’S LARGEST C-141B STARLIFTER MODEL?

Technology

Black Letter C-130J; it’s a byatch!

Video July 17, 2019 Hutchins AAron

In June 2019, a C-130J in Japan was proclaimed to have achieved Black Letter proficiency; no maintenance problems!

In the official video report, USAF 374th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chiefs explain just how hard it is to get the rare Black Letter:

Here’s official Ramstein Black Letter C-130J video report from May 2018:

VEHICLE I-D: LAST ‘SPOOKY’ DAYS OF THE AC-130U GUNSHIP?

U.S.

Tornado & Flood Facts, according to the USAF, how to prep!

Video July 9, 2019 Hutchins AAron

Official ‘facts & prep’ video put out by U.S. Air Force’s 2nd Bomb Wing in Louisiana, May 2019:

Tornado hit near Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio, 27MAY2019.

Technology

Vehicle I-D: Last ‘Spooky’ days of the AC-130U Gunship?

Video July 9, 2019 Hutchins AAron

On 08JUL2019, some of the last AC-130U ‘Spooky’ with the 4th Special Operations Squadron returned from a recent deployment.

AC-130Us have been on constant deployment since 2001, but are supposed to soon be replaced by the new AC-130J Ghostrider.

U.S. Air Force video report by Staff Sergeant Marleah Cabano:

A Spooky sight at Hurlburt Field, Florida, 08JUL2019.

Here’s a cool video of the homecoming:

Welcome home!

Big Daddy AC-130U:

Black Letter Last Flight

Kit Bashing, Technology

Vehicle I-D: Normandy painted C-130 Hercules

Image July 9, 2019 Hutchins AAron

On 02JUL2019, a ‘Normady’ striped USAF C-130J paid a visit to Belgium, to give some firefighters a ride.

The 37th Airlift Squadron, 86th Airlift Wing, landed on Chièvres Air Base, to help U.S. Air Force 424th Air Base Squadron firefighters train-up, and asked the Belgians if they wanted to tag-along.

Plastic space ship cockpit of C-130J Super Hercules.

Not sure what the firefighting training was as the USAF didn’t provide any pics of that. I think it was actually a covert joy-ride.

There were several C-130 in Invasion Stripes attending the D-Day Anniversary, like this C-130J from Little Rock, Arkansas.

Back in May 2019, a C-130H got striped, a Kentucky Guard bird scheduled to take part in this year’s D-Day Anniversary.

KENTUCKY DOG TRAINS TO RESCUE ALASKANS FROM A HC-130J!

D-DAY F-15E STRIKE EAGLE

U.S.

Earthquake: Did USAF know California was about to be hit?

Image July 8, 2019 Hutchins AAron

Over the July 4th, 2019, weekend California’s ‘seismic drought’ came to an end with two 6+ quakes. Interestingly, Vandenberg Air Force Base had just conducted an earthquake drill exactly one month prior.

The scenario was held on 05JUN2019, to test if the base could continue operations during a natural disaster.

Interestingly the observers were made up of personnel from the 30th Space Wing Inspector General judge advocate of military justice, in other word’s Air Force lawyers and legal assistants.

30th Civil Engineer Squadron firefighters practiced drilling through concrete to rescue victims.

The 30th Medical Group was tasked to prove it could relocate and continue providing medical care if the base hospital was destroyed.

U.S. Air Force stated that disaster drills at all its bases are ongoing yearly events.

Technology, U.S.

Kentucky dog trains to rescue Alaskans from a HC-130J!

Video July 1, 2019 Hutchins AAron

Tennessee Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Darby Arnold, 25JUN2019.

K9 Callie and her handler, Technical Sergeant Rudy Parsons, a para-rescueman (aka Para-Jumper, PJ) with the 123rd Special Tactics Squadron, Kentucky Air National Guard, wait to jump into the icy water off Alaska, 25JUN2019.

Tennessee Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Darby Arnold, 25JUN2019.

Video (by SSgt Darby Arnold) of people jumping out of a perfectly good Alaskan National Guard HC-130J Combat King-2 (I think the dog was just along for the ride on this one):

Tennessee Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Darby Arnold, 25JUN2019.

K9 Callie, a Dutch Shepherd, trained for search and rescue, sits on the ramp of an HC-130J aircraft awaiting training at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, 25JUN2019.

VEHICLE I-D: ALASKA MILITIA GETS NEW HC-130J