Cold War S-A-C flew World War Two B-25 Mitchells

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…

B-25 Flamin’ Maimie was as cold as ice!

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…

“…a potential wipe out of an entire generation…”: Pandemic lockdowns prove to be worse than the Pandemic!

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…

CoViD-19 Shenanigans

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…

CoViD-19 = economic & social Deaths of Despair!

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…

National Guard teaching a baby three horned dinosaur to fly?

13 September 2020 / 04:18 (UTC-07 Tango 06)/ 23 Shahrivar 1399/25 Muharram 1442/26 Yi-You 4718

National Guard photos by Second Lieutenant Anna Doo and Sergeant John Montoya.  Videos by Second Lieutenant Anna Doo and Sergeant Zechariah Freeman.  Dig photos via New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.

New Mexico Museum of […] Continue Reading…

Cold War & Beyond: Remembering the Starlifter

Lockheed’s fast transport C-141 was designed according to Cold War requirements in 1960, and first flew in 1963.  It was the world’s first turbofan powered military transport aircraft: “The C-141 has a noble record of achievement in its support of the U.S. military. Participating in every military operation from Vietnam to Iraqi Freedom, StarLifter […] Continue Reading…

Vehicle I-D: USMC Sno-Cats flee Slink Fire

U.S. Marine Corps Sno-Cats, Mountain Warfare Training Center, California. Photo by Corporal Patrick King, 22JAN2022. Photo by Firefighter Benjamin Paladino, 29AUG2020.

On 29AUG2020, the Slink Fire erupted near Bridgeport, California, near the U.S. Marine Corps’ Mountain Warfare Training Center.

Tucker-Terra Model 1600 Sno-Cats. U.S. Marine […] Continue Reading…

Once a Red Coat, now a Blue Angel

The retired ‘Fat Albert’ C-130T, brought out for public Pandemic moral display. (Texas Air National Guard photo by Julie Briden-Garcia, 06MAY2020.

On 06MAY2020, the retired C-130T Fat Albert was brought out to help fight CoViD-19 at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas.  After 30-thousand hours of flying in […] Continue Reading…

CoViD-19 can’t stop growing global tsunami of migrants! Where the hell are they coming from?

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of main-stream-news links about global immigrant/border operations from August 2020 to the beginning of September 2020.

Leftist news sources want metro areas to become “true havens for climate migrants” advising How cities can prepare to support climate migrants.

Revealed; more than 200-thousand unaccompanied child migrants left to uncertain fates in Europe.

 

Five years […] Continue Reading…

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