U.S. Cold War style, that is.
Phil Meador Summer AutoFest, with dozens of show quality vehicles inside the mall, and more vehicles outside the mall. 24th through 25th August 2024, at the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck.
Four door 1957 Chevrolet BelAir.
1966 Jet camper trailer.
Here’s my video, with a look inside the camper:
And the home-on-wheels is for sale!
Gate City Real Estate’s Client Appreciation car show and food feed: 
17 years of free cars & food?
17th Annual Gate City Real Estate’s Client Appreciation car show and food feed at O.K. Ward Park in Pocatello, Idaho.
I wasn’t expecting so many cars at a free event, but reportedly it is the biggest such event in Bannock County. Gate City Real Estate also calls this event their ‘company picnic’, yet everybody is invited!
Here is a few of the many cars (pardon my Summer Time Allergies):
Some more cars:
Another sampling:
Free food line.
Even after two hours of checking out the cars, they still had plenty of BBQ:
The sky got smoky from all the wildfires, but it actually made for a cool sunset.
The show is over, part-1:
Show’s over, part-2:
Part-3:
Finally, part-4:
Can’t wait for the 18th Client Appreciation car show and food feed!
This is the front.
The builder claims it is a Chevy Truck!
Is it actually a 4×4 Chevy Impala?
Bad Gas at the free car show and B-B-Q feed fest?
June 2024: 13th Annual SAC Oldies Rod & Custom show & fundraiser!
On 04AUG2024, the U.S. Air Force (USAF), and the Arkansas Air National Guard, used Highway 63, near Bono, as a runway for transport and special operations aircraft. It was part of the greater Emerald Warrior 24 Field Training eXercise (FTX) II (2).
Arkansas Air National Guard photo by Airman First Class Samuel Zang, 04AUG2024.
For the first time, Arkansas Air National Guard’s 189th Airlift Wing used Highway 63 as a runway for it’s C-130H Hercules aircraft. Officially it is to “expand the Arkansas Air National Guard’s capabilities that can be used in humanitarian and disaster relief.”
On Hurlburt Field, Florida, Special Operations Airmen board a C-146A, bound for HWY 63. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Joseph Pick, 02AUG2024.
The USAF’s 492d Special Operations Wing (SOW) sent their C-146A Wolfhound (Do-328).
U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Ty Pilgrim, 04AUG2024.
An MC-130J crewmember preps to fuel an AC-130J. USAF photo by Senior Airman Ty Pilgrim, 04AUG2024.
The 492nd SOW also sent their MC-130J Commando-2 to act as a FARP (Forward Arming Refueling Point) to resupply a 1st SOW AC-130J Ghostrider Gunship.
An AC-130J rolls in for fuel and ammo. USAF photo by Airman First Class Saisha Cornett, 04AUG2024.
Silent video of MC-130J & AC-130J:
MC-130J, 2023: 
Pennsylvania’s new Commando-2
C-130H, 2023: 
African Lion
EC-103H, 2022: 
Compass Call makes its last call?
AC-130U, 2019: Last days of the ‘Spooky’?
Actually, the builder says it is the remains of several 1980s Chevy trucks, which were rotting away on his property. Plus, wherever else he could add from his junk collection.
This is the front.
Seen at one of the biggest free car shows and food feed in Bannock County, the 17th Annual Client Appreciation Car Show & BBQ!
Special custom air cleaner? I thought the builder was trying to keep the rain off the motor, but no, he just needed somewhere to put an abandoned trash can lid.
It took place in O.K. Ward Park, on the northwest side of Pocatello, on 08AUG2024.
The rear steering requires somebody to sit in the back and operate with a crank handle.
Here’s my video:
Rear steering gearbox and rear axle are from the front of an old 1980s pickup.
Here’s another video:
17th Annual Client Appreciation Car Show: Is it actually a 4×4 Chevy Impala?
At the end of June 1950, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, aka North Korea) invaded Republic of Korea (RoK, aka South Korea). The United Nations condemned the attack and essentially declared war by creating the United Nations Command (UNC), and designating the United States as the leader of the UNC.
At the end of July 1953, an armistice (a type of truce/ceasefire) was established, but it did not officially end the war. It is a true ‘Cold War’ that never ended.
Photo via U.S. Forces Korea, 02AUG2024.
On 02AUG2024, at a ceremony on Camp Humphreys in the RoK, NATO Germany became the 18th country to join the UNC operations: “By joining the UNC, we are contributing substantially to stability on the Korean Peninsula.”-Boris Pistorius, Federal Minister of Defense of Germany
U.S. Armed Forces Network (AFN) video report, recorded on 02AUG2024 but not released until 15AUG2024:
In 1954, the Cold War era West Germany established the Red Cross Hospital in Busan (aka Pusan), RoK.
In 1953, many people were lead to believe the war was over:
Never Ending Korean War, 28MAR2024: Russia blocks U.S. sponsored sanctions against North Korea!
1951: Ethiopia invades Korea?
1950: South African Red Nosed Mustangs stampede!
How to fuel & arm your USAF F-86 Sabre in Korea
The last time I observed DC-10 air tanker operations (ops) on the Pocatello Airport was in July 2021 (in August 2022, I observed BAE-Avro-RJ85, MD87 and Air Tractor ops).
Sometime between 11 and Noon, flying eastward over the Chubbuck Days Festival.
On 10AUG2024, I was alerted to the DC-10’s presence when they flew low over the Chubbuck Days Festival in Cotant Park.
Ex-NASA DC-8 now serving as Idaho State University’s aviation maintenance aircraft, and further down is another DC-10 being ‘bombed-up’ at the U.S. Forest Service’s air tanker base.
DC-10s and a retired DC-8 (the wind has picked up and is messing with the audio):
The Pocatello Air Tanker Base is one of several U.S. Forest Service operations covering the western United States. Upgrades to the base were completed by Summer 2022, however, the upgrades actually resulted in “minimized capacity”:
The ‘new-to-me’ location of the U.S. Forest Service’s air tanker base, on the eastern end of the airport runway. Near the dirt racing track and skeet shooting range.
The new U.S. Forest Service air base ops building versus the old building, and apparently there was a new fire near the Soda Springs area of Idaho (according to the wildfires.gov website):
Pocatello Air Tanker Base, July 2021: 
K-Max & 10 Tanker, waiting for the call
DC-10 & B-17 Sentimental Journey
Wildfires 2019:
SMOKE ’EM IF YOU GOT ’EM, 2017!: POCATELLO AIRPORT FIRE BOMBERS ARE BACK! Air Tractors, RJ85s, old outdate Neptunes, and of course DC-10s.
U.S. WILDFIRES 2016: DC-10 POCATELLO AIRPORT
IDAHO WILDFIRES 2015: POKEY AIRPORT DC-10 WATER BOMBER
Idaho Wildfires 2012, the year it got real bad: Canadian BAe 146 (RJ85) join the fight on Pocatello Airtanker Base
To see more of my past coverage just do a search using Idaho Wildfires, or Pocatello Tanker Base, or Pocatello Airport.
Seen at one of the biggest free car shows and food feed in Bannock County, the 17th Annual Client Appreciation Car Show & BBQ!
It took place in O.K. Ward Park, on the northwest side of Pocatello, on 08AUG2024.
Here’s my video:
Here is another video:
Was it something I ate?: 
Bad Gas at the free car show and B-B-Q feed fest!
One of the biggest free car shows and food feed in Bannock County, the 17th Annual Client Appreciation Car Show & BBQ!
It took place in O.K. Ward Park, on the northwest side of Pocatello, on 08AUG2024.
Here’s my video:
The current owner gave me the back story to this 1966 Chevy-2 Super Sport. The original owner used it for drag racing until finally permanently parking the car in his garage. After more than a decade, another guy came along looking for a project to use his Chevy LS-1 motor and 6-speed manual transmission on.
The current owner revealed to me that the old-skool fuel injector set-up is fake, it is actually a glorified air cleaner housing for the carburetor hidden underneath!
Even though it has a modern 6-speed manual transmission, it sports an old Hurst style 4-speed shifter.
The current owner drives his fake-news gasser around town whenever he can, yes it is street legal.
13th SAC show: 
Round2 is reissuing the old MPC Gangbusters series of car kits, and I just happen to have an original Model Products Corporation issue from the mid-1960s!
Boxing:
More proof its old:
Unboxing:
Bullet riddled:
Whitewall damage:
I need a drink:
Golden crispy instructions:
More golden-crispy instructions:
Cool kits for only $1:
Shenanigans: REVELL-MONOGRAM P-47D THUNDERBOLT
SAAB JAS (Jakt- Attack- Spaningsflygplan) 39 Gripen
During the never officially declared Cold War, Sweden decided that its fighter aircraft should be able to use silly-vilian highway systems as runways. In May 2024, the Gripen took part in landings and take-offs from a highway near Gothenburg. Video via NATO:
Sweden has long been a ‘partner’ of NATO, but in March 2024 Sweden became a full NATO Member.
Taking part in Bomber Task Force Europe, May 2020. Försvarsmakten photo.
JAS 39C Gripen during the 2019 Royal International Air Tatoo, over the United Kingdom. U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Aaron Thomasson, 20JUL2019.
JAS 39D Gripen, on Kallax Air Base, Luleå, Sweden, during the Arctic Challenge wargame in May 2019. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist John M. Hageman.
June 2014, a U.S. Air Force (USAF, 100th Air Refueling Wing) KC-135 refuels a Swedish Gripen during NATO wargame BaltOps (Baltic Operations), video by Senior Airman Laura Yahemiak:
Normally a U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier instructor pilot, Major Eric Grunke (hometown Weiser, Idaho) straps into the back seat of a Gripen-D for a FAC training mission over Malmen Military Base, Linköping, Sweden. USMC photo by Sergeant Tatum Vayavananda, 21AUG2013.
In January 2013, Sweden sent their Griffins to take part in the USAF Red Flag wargame over Nellis, Nevada. I edited this take-off video from videos recorded by the USAF:
I edited this landing video from videos recorded by the USAF:
NATO vehicle I-D: 
THE ARCHER FROM SWEDEN
