This F4U-1 ‘Birdcage’ served with NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), for 1:1 scale wind tunnel testing, before being transferred to the U.S. Navy.
NACA photo, 18JUL1951.Photograph from July 1951, F4U-4B with NACA tail band. The retired Corsair was put to use by NACA to research […] Continue Reading…
CoViD-19=CoronaVirus Disease-2019
Note that the U.S. CDC has stop issuing weekly influenza numbers, instead reporting confusing graphs and percentages. However, as of 17APR2020, the U.S. CDC’s daily CoViD-19 numbers say more than 33-thousand people in the U.S. have died, that includes 4-thousand “probable” but not confirmed cases.
From the Cholera Riots to the Coronavirus Revolts
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Covid-19 will lead […] Continue Reading…
On 21DEC2016, the QF-4E was officially retired.
Video report, Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, phinal UN-manned Phantom phlight, August 2016:
2015 video from Tyndall AFB, Florida, a phather’s phinal Phantom phlight is his son’s phirst Phantom plight:
Video, QF-4E last plight out of Tyndall 24JUL2015, heading to Holloman AFB:
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In April 2018, an F-86 Saber (for some reason the USAF liked to use the British empire spelling of Sabre) tangled with a MiG-15 (NATO reporting name Fagot [as in the British empire slang for cigarette, not the U.S. slang for […] Continue Reading…
During the last week of February 2020, the Oregon Military Museum decided to put together an F-86F Saber (Sabre).
Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel, 26FEB2020.
Incomplete images of India’s current state of Air Power.
Indian C-17 on Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, 20NOV2020. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Christopher Quail.Indian Air Force promo:
Indian Navy Harrier
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Hannen, 30JUL2007.Jaguar/Shamsher
Surrounded, finders keepers! NATO reporting name for the Soviet era Mil 8 is Hip.
USA photo by Sergeant Patrick Jubrey, 06AUG2019. USA photo by Sergeant Patrick Jubrey, 06AUG2019.USA photo by Sergeant Patrick Jubrey, […] Continue Reading…
“And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third Beast saying, ‘Come’, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat upon him had a balance scale in his hand. And I heard a voice from among The Beasts, which said, ‘A two-quart measure of wheat for a denarius and three two-quart measures […] Continue Reading…
In September 2019, U.S. Marines used what remained of a UH-1 to conduct fire fighting and recovery training at U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Grounds (YPG), Arizona.
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“And I saw The Holy City, New Jerusalem, descending from Heaven from beside God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.”-Revelation 21:2, Aramaic Bible
They’ve been happening since the end of 2010, Sky Cities making appearances over coastal cities in […] Continue Reading…