“There were people out taking measurements on a Hercules, and they said they were going to land a C-130 on an aircraft carrier. I didn’t believe them. Later my CO came around and said the same thing. I still didn’t believe it, but I raised my hand to […] Continue Reading…
The day before Halloween, the first of three retired KC-10 Extenders began its mummification by AMARG (Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group) at Davis-Monthan Air
Force Base, Arizona.
On 13JUL2020, a KC-10 (tail #86-0036) based at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, […] Continue Reading…
31 October 2020 / 03:21 (UTC-07 Tango 06)/ 10
Aban 1399/14 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1442/15 Bing-Xu(9th month) 4718
Begun under the Barack Obama administration, the UH-60A program for Afghanistan is now drastically scaled back under the Donald Trump administration, due to lack of the […] Continue Reading…
In September 2020, C-130s were painted in ‘heritage’ colors to represent some of the first aircraft flown by the U.S. Air Force’s 41st and 61st Airlift Squadrons. The paint schemes included a camo tail, a pre-World War Two yellow tail, and a Cold […] Continue Reading…
After spending most of the year flying at various locations across the United States, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two (click this link to see pics and video interview with current owner), a B-25 […] Continue Reading…
SAC=Strategic Air Command
These photos were taken in the late 1950s by the father-in-law to Russel Sharp.
Russel Sharp (the guy in the uniform) was a crew chief (aka maintainer) and flight engineer on B-25s flown by SAC, out of Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas.
Between 1954 and 1959, U.S. Air Force SAC used the World War […] Continue Reading…
Before there was NASA, there was NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics). Photos from the NASA archives.
Looks to be Flamin’ Maimie before NACA’s many modifications. NACA photo, 1947.NACA had a XB-25E called Flamin’ Maimie. If you look up Flamin’ Maimie you’ll get a couple of dominant results; a jazz song […] Continue Reading…
12 October 2020 / 10:27 (UTC-07 Tango 06)/ 21 Mehr 1399/24 Safar 1442/26 Bing-Xu 4718
Incomplete list of links to official reports from around the world:
David Nabarro, World Health Organization special envoy for CoViD-19, warned in 08OCT2020 video interview, with the Spectator’s The Week in 60 Minutes, admits that nobody knows how to properly respond […] Continue Reading…
03 October 2020 / 03:48 (UTC-07 Tango 06)/ 12 Mehr 1399/15 Safar 1442/17 Bing-Xu 4718
Incomplete list of links to news reports from around the world:
United Nations World Health Organization now admits that harsh pandemic lockdowns cause more harm than the pandemic and “must be avoided at all costs.”
Countries without CoViD infections are still being […] Continue Reading…
18 September 2020 / 07:46 (UTC-07 Tango 06)/ 28 Shahrivar 1399/30 Muharram 1442/02 Yi-You(8th month) 4718
“You’re going to lose more people by putting a country into a massive recession or depression. You’re going to lose people. You’re going to have suicides by the thousands.”-President Donald Trump, 24MAR2020, regarding a possible national lockdown
Below is an […] Continue Reading…