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How to resurrect a dead A-10C. Belly landings becoming common place?

Video January 24, 2022 Hutchins AAron

“We knew we could do it, but it would take a long time. We basically rebuilt the entire front of the A-10 without aided engineering and un-procurable parts that had to be local manufactured.”-Daniel Wise, 571st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (AMXS)

U.S. Air Force photo by R. Nial Bradshaw, 22OCT2021.

By 22OCT2021, repair crews at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, finished more than three years of work returning a crashed A-10 Thunderbolt-2 to life.

Michigan Air National Guard photo by Terry Atwell.

On 20JUL2017, a Michigan Air National Guard Red Devil’s A-10C suffered a 30mm gun misfire, which caused the canopy and several panels to blow off, two of the radios died. It was also discovered by the wingman that the landing gear wouldn’t drop, notifying Captain Brett DeVries, on a third radio set, that he had to belly land tail number 80-0264.

USAF photo by R. Nial Bradshaw, 30SEP2021.

USAF photo by R. Nial Bradshaw, 28SEP2021.

The Michigan Air National Guard thought the warthog could be repaired and contacted the 309th AMXG (aircraft maintenance group) on Hill AFB. 80-0264 arrived on Hill in July 2018.

USAF photo by R. Nial Bradshaw, 28SEP2021.

USAF photo by R. Nial Bradshaw, 30SEP2021.

The reason why it was sent to Hill AFB is that the A-10 is such a unique, and old aircraft, that parts are hard to find, but many can be locally made on Hill AFB: “A lot of the parts are unavailable so we have to run them through our local manufacturing process and make them ourselves. With any of the other weapons systems, if they have a bad part, they order it through supply and replace it. On the A-10’s, we’re kind of in a different world.”-Scott Oster, 571st AMXS

USAF photo by R. Nial Bradshaw, 28SEP2021.

USAF photo by R. Nial Bradshaw, 30SEP2021.

When the 30mm Gatling gun decides to malfunction it causes extensive structural damage inside the nose of the A-10, including the nose wheel well and landing gear: “It was just a whole lot of structural work, like 90%.”-Scott Oster, 571st AMXS

U.S. Air Force Facebook photo, April 2020.

Then, at the beginning of April 2020, another A-10C, this time in Georgia, also made a belly landing on Moody Air Force Base.

In November 2020, Captain Brett DeVries actually got the ‘DFC’ award for belly landing his A-10C. But that wasn’t his first award for belly landing an A-10C, the first award came in March 2018. Michigan Air National Guard video report about the Joe Foss Award for Excellence:

USAF photo by Andrea Jenkins, April 2020.

In May 2021, Captain Taylor Bye also got an award for belly landing her A-10C on Moody AFB.

USAF photo by Brad White, 25MAR2008.

Way back in March 2008, an A-10 taking part in a Green Flag operation out of Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, had to make a belly landing, and did so on Edwards AFB, California.

Upon closer inspection of the photo, it appears there was a problem with the 30mm gun?

USAF photo by Brad White, 25MAR2008.

December 2021: A-10C RED & GREEN IDAHO SHOW?

August 2021: Michigan Air National Guard uses state highway to launch A-10Cs (chock full of videos of A-10Cs and C-146A Wolfhound)

Technology

Cold War Vehicle I-D: BRDM-2, now being used as Taxis?

Video January 23, 2022 Hutchins AAron

For some unknown reason, for a short time during the Cold War the U.S./NATO called both the BRDM-1 and BRDM-2 the BTR-40.

Warsaw Pact Poland BRDM-2 crossing a river.

BRDM-2 captured by U.S. forces during the invasion of Grenada (Operation Urgent Fury). U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Mike Creen, October 1983.

U.S. Marines captured this BRDM-2 during Operation Urgent Fury. U.S. Navy photo by Peter D. Sundberg, October 1983.

BRDM Sagger anti-tank missile version, referred to as the BTR-40 in some Western publications. U.S. Department of Defense photo dated November 1984.

Sagger missile launcher retracted. U.S. Department of Defense photo dated November 1984.

Launcher raised, one Sagger AT-3 onboard. U.S. Department of Defense photo dated November 1984.

A 1987 Czechoslovak film (including 1980s ‘East Bloc’ music) promoting the BRDM-2:

Photo released in the United States in April 1989, BRDM-2s follow behind a BTR-50P.

On display, Fort Irwin, National Training Center, California. U.S. Army photo dated January 1991.

The U.S. Army added ‘Fake News’ Spandrel anti-tank missiles to this BRDM. Fort Irwin, National Training Center, California. U.S. Army photo dated January 1991.

Abandoned Iraqi BRDM-2 in Kuwait, during Operation Desert Storm. Apparently it was being used to haul trash. U.S. Department of Defense photo dated February 1991.

Several years after the unofficial Cold War ended, the U.S. Marine Corps was using BRDM-2s in a war game called Kernel Blitz ’97. U.S. Navy photo by Paul Self, 21JUN1997.

In 2014, a BRDM-2 was seen being used as a taxi in Saint Petersburg, Russia:

Russian Western Military District photo, August 2021.

Vehicle I-D, 1997: SOVIET ARMOR OF THE U.S. MARINE CORPS

Vehicle I-D, 2021: Ukraine still uses BRDM-2s

Business/Economics, Influenza

Vaccine Fail: U.S. economic crash triggered by Court cases against Pandemic Vax? Beware the Cobra Effect!

Video January 22, 2022 Hutchins AAron

Billions of investor dollars have been pumped into the vaccine maker’s coffers, along with the billions of taxpayer dollars used to purchase the vaccines for so-called free distribution to the public. For the past two years the global economy has been forced, by mandates of various governments, to focus on what has become what I call The Pandemic Industry, but will recent court rulings bring that financial/economic Tower of Babel crashing down?

European Medicines Agency (EMA) says too many Pandemic boosters will actually weaken your immune system, 4th booster won’t work!

Here’s an incomplete list of videos and links to reports out of the United States:

January 2022: Investment adviser in New York City says 28% of all U.S. dollars were created in 2020 & 2021 (essentially because of what I call The Pandemic Industry), and that continued government Pandemic focused spending will actually crash the economy for everybody else (he calls it a ‘Cobra Effect’). Also, The Pandemic has been used to hide inflation, which is now painfully obvious:

Yet another study says avoid the J&J vax!

This video report starts out praising vaccines, then says legal patent rights for vaccines will make the Pandemic worse in the long run:

Moderna stock prices crash by $130-billion due to new study that says vaccine boosters have no effect on Omicron!

Novavax stock prices down 30%!

Restaurant owners in the city of Minneapolis, in Minnesota, take city officials to court over city level vaccine mandate:

New study says Pfizer and BioNTech’s Pandemic vaccines don’t work on Omicron!

Case brought by people in Nevada results in federal judge in Texas halting Biden’s federal employee vaccine mandate:

Thousands of U.S. Navy Sailors now going to court to stop military mandated vaccines!

Starbucks becomes first international employer to end mandated vaccines for employees in the U.S.:

Supreme Court ruling causes investors to get the hell outta vaccination Dodge, Pandemic Vax makers lose millions overnight!

Vaccine maker’s stock prices begin crashing as increasing Omicron cases among the vaccinated prove the boosters are not working!

December 2021: Revealed, at least 75 lawmakers, Democrats and Republicans, are directly invested in (what I call) The Pandemic Industry!

U.S. appeals court rules against Moderna!

U.S. victims of Pandemic vaccines cannot sue the makers of those vaccines!

March 2020: Financial Times explains how much money is spent on (what I call The Pandemic Industry) vaccines:

Individuals in the United States suffering adverse reactions to vaccines need to self-report to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Victims who have done so say it is time consuming and complicated, as if intended to dissuade you from making a report.

Official U.S. government video explanation of ‘no fault’ Childhood NVICP (which also hears cases involving adults):

In 2014, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) revealed that vaccine injury cases were intentionally dragged out, but many were eventually settled.

Pandēmus Totalitarian: “THIS IS NO EXERCISE OF FEDERAL POWER… IT IS INSTEAD A SIGNIFICANT ENCROACHMENT…” SUPREME COURT UNANIMOUSLY DECLARES VAX MANDATE AN ILLEGAL USE OF POWER BY THE PRESIDENT!

Vaccine Fail: NEXT GEN M-R-N-A VAXES TO USE TROJAN HORSE FLU VIRUS TO INVADE YOUR CELLS! ADMITS CURRENT VAXES DON’T WORK!

MORE PROOF VACCINES TURN YOU INTO A SUPER SPREADER! FULLY VACCINATED PUBLIC OFFICIALS GETTING SICK & DYING!

Pandemic Perfidy: BLAME RISING PRICES ON CROSS-BORDER U.S.-CANADA VAX MANDATES!

Influenza, U.S.

Pandēmus Totalitarian: “This is no exercise of federal power… It is instead a significant encroachment…” Supreme Court unanimously declares Vax Mandate an illegal use of Power by the President!

Video January 22, 2022 Hutchins AAron

“Applicants are likely to succeed on the merits of their
claim that the Secretary lacked authority to impose the
mandate. Administrative agencies are creatures of statute.
They accordingly possess only the authority that Congress
has provided. The Secretary has ordered 84 million Americans to either obtain a COVID–19 vaccine or undergo
weekly medical testing at their own expense. This is no
‘everyday exercise of federal power.’ In re MCP No. 165,
20 F. 4th, at 272 (Sutton, C. J., dissenting). It is instead a
significant encroachment into the lives—and health—of a vast number of employees.”–13JAN2022, U.S. Supreme Court ruling regarding the U.S. Secretary of Labor’s implementation of Biden’s vaccine mandate

Click her to read the Portable Document Format (PDF) release of the unanimous (per curiam) decision by U.S. Supreme Court to override its Sixth District Court’s ruling and halt Biden’s private sector vaccine mandate.

Now, what happens to all those thousands of employers who began removing employees who refused to comply with the now illegal Biden vax mandate? Massive class-action lawsuits, anybody?

Official U.S. government video explanation of ‘no fault’ Childhood NVICP (which also hears cases involving adults):

In 2014, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) revealed that vaccine injury cases were intentionally dragged out, but many were eventually settled.

Pandēmus Totalitarian, 08JAN2022: EN MASSE ‘LOCKOUTS’ & JOB TERMINATIONS BEGIN FOR THOSE NOT VACCINATED!

Vaccine Fail: NEXT GEN M-R-N-A VAXES TO USE TROJAN HORSE FLU VIRUS TO INVADE YOUR CELLS! ADMITS CURRENT VAXES DON’T WORK!

MORE PROOF VACCINES TURN YOU INTO A SUPER SPREADER! FULLY VACCINATED PUBLIC OFFICIALS GETTING SICK & DYING!

Pandemic Perfidy: BLAME RISING PRICES ON CROSS-BORDER U.S.-CANADA VAX MANDATES!

Technology, U.S.

Sold for one Penny! Death of the Cold War Relic USS Kitty Hawk

Video January 20, 2022 Hutchins AAron

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U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Paul Seeber, 15JAN2022.

U.S. Navy video by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Paul Seeber, worth only one penny Kitty Hawk leaves Naval Base Kitsap–Bremerton, Washington, for the breakers in Brownsville, Texas, 15JAN2022:

Recently, several news reports told of the insulting sale of a Cold War relic, the USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 (aka CVA-63), for a mere one penny! However, the sale was quietly revealed in October 2021, to scrapper International Shipbreaking Ltd./EMR Brownsville, not just the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, but also the John F. Kennedy. The October 2021 revelation also revealed that there were hopes to turn the two aircraft carriers into museum ships, those hopes killed-off by a mere one penny per ship sale! The one penny per ship sale was concluded on 29SEP2021.

The estimated cost to build the Kitty Hawk range from $200-million to $400-million, in 1961 dollars. It was also estimated that every time the steam powered ‘supercarrier’ was overhauled it cost taxpayers between $65-million and $100-million. Kitty Hawk also underwent an $800-million Service Life Extension Program from 1990 to 1993. And the yearly cost (according to 1996 data) to operate the aircraft carrier was $141-million.

The Supercarrier’s keel was laid in December 1956, launched in May 1960, officially commissioned in April 1961.

Silent USN film by F. J. Stitt, christening of Kitty Hawk, 21MAY1960:

Silent USN film of Kitty Hawk’s commissioning day ceremonies, the film’s slate info is dated March 1961, yet the USN gives the commissioning date as April 1961 (the USN tends to hold the ceremonies a month before the ‘official’ commissionings/decommissionings):

In the middle of November 1961, the brand new CVA-63 took part in its first wargame at Camp Pendleton, California. I edited silent USN films (recorded by personnel with the last names of Miller, and Cobbs) to show just the scenes of CVA-63, there weren’t many scenes of CVA-63:

From 05 June to 07 June 1963, President John F. Kennedy paid a visit to CVA-63, to observe the 32 vessel “fleet weapons demonstration” and give a speech influenced by the previous year’s Cuban Missile Crisis. Silent USN film by J. H. Sturdevant:

In May 2009, Kitty Hawk was ‘officially’ decommissioned and sent to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, State of Washington, for ‘mothballing’. Kitty Hawk was stricken from Naval records in October 2017.

U.S. Navy photo by Wendy Hallmark, 09MAR2021.

In March 2021, while the world was grappling with the new Delta Pandemic fear mongering, quietly the Kitty Hawk was moved into Dry Dock 6, of the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard-Intermediate Maintenance Facility, to prepare it for scrapping.

USN photo by Seaman Josue Escobosa, 02SEP2008.

In September 2008, Kitty Hawk sailed into Bremerton, Washington, for its decommissioning.

USN photo by Kyle Gahlau, 22AUG2008.

While in San Diego for its last time, Sailors removed anything that wasn’t tied down, like bedding.

USN photo by Kyle Gahlau, 07AUG2008.

After completing its last RimPac (Rim of the Pacific Exercise) in 2008, steam powered Kitty Hawk sailed past its replacement in San Diego, the nuclear powered USS George Washington CV-73. USS George Washington then left to take Kitty Hawk’s place at the port of Yokosuka, Japan, making CV-73 the first ‘forward deployed’ nuclear powered U.S. aircraft carrier.

USN video by Petty Officer Crockett, Kitty Hawk arriving for RimPac 2008:

USN photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew White, 28MAY2008.

In May 2008, Kitty Hawk left its home port of Yokosuka, where it had been based from 1998 to 2008.

U.S. Naval History & Heritage Command: Kitty Hawk II (CVA-63)

USS Bonhomme Richard (LH-6): STEEL INFERNO, ONE YEAR LATER, SABOTAGE & LACK OF LEADERSHIP=DEATH OF A SHIP!

Desert Storm Battle Damage: USS TRIPOLI LPH-10

Cold War Subs: USS NAUTILUS (SSN-571), STILL FIGHTING AFTER 67 YEARS! FIRST BORN IN LAND-LOCKED IDAHO?

Cold War Boats: FIBERGLASS & WOOD, USS AVENGER (MCM-1), KEEL LAYING TO COMMISSIONING.

Technology

Cold War Aggressor: EA-7L the ‘electric’ TA-7C Corsair-2

Image January 19, 2022 Hutchins AAron

At least six U.S. Navy TA-7C Corsair-2 training aircraft were sent to Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron VAQ-34 and converted to EA-7L electronic ‘aggressor’ aircraft. Apparently they were still marked as TA-7Cs?

In this photo you can see that these VAQ-34 EA-7Ls(?) are still marked as TA-7Cs on the fuselage sides. VAQ-34 also flew ‘pure’ TA-7Cs, but both these aircraft are carrying black nosed Radar Signal Simulator (RSS) pods.

VAQ-34 was created in 1983, and based at Point Magu in California. Point Magu is also the home of the Pacific Missile Test Center (PMTC).

A view of a TA-7C ‘pre-EA-7L’ Corsair II aircraft fitted with a pod carrying a Radar Signal Simulator (RSS), parked in front of Building 351 at the Pacific Missile Test Center, California. USN photo by M. Washington, 27JUN1982.

The EA-7L was the result of Radar Signal Simulator (RSS) testing, also at the PMTC, in 1982.

Naval Air Station Point Mugu, California, EA-7L/TA-7C fitted with Radar Signal Simulator (RSS) pod. USN photo by M. Washington, 27JUN1982.

Naval Air Station Point Mugu, California, EA-7L/TA-7C fitted with a red RSS pod. USN photo by M. Washington, 27JUN1982.

Pacific Missile Test Center, Naval Air Station Point Mugu, California, TA-7C/EA-7L fitted with a red Radar Signal Simulator (RSS) pod. USN photo by M. Washington, 27JUN1982.

Naval Air Station Point Mugu, California, EA-7L/TA-7C fitted with a white RSS pod. USN photo by M. Washington, 27JUN1982.

EA-7L Aggressor during the U.S. 3rd Fleet North Pacific Exercise at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska. U.S. Air Force photo by Sergeant W. Thornton, 08NOV1987.

Carrying a black nosed RSS pod. U.S. Air Force photo by Sergeant W. Thornton, 08NOV1987.

U.S. Air Force photo by Sergeant W. Thornton, 08NOV1987.

About to be retired, EA-7L Corsair II of the Pacific Missile Test Center, 30DEC1991. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate Second Class Bruce Trombecky.

Photo by Aeroprints.

One EA-7L crashed in 1990, another EA-7L was sold to Greece, two appear to be missing and the rest of the EA-7Ls were retired in 1991, apparently now rotting away at The Bone Yard that is Davis Monthan Air Force Base.

Photo by Aeroprints.

VAQ-34 was disbanded by the end of 1993, due to ‘aggressor’ duties being transferred to U.S. Naval Reserve units.

USAF A-7D: COLD WAR MAINTENANCE WALK AROUND

Influenza, International

Pandemic Perfidy/Biden’s Borderland: Blame rising Prices on cross-border U.S.-Canada Vax Mandates!

Video January 18, 2022 Hutchins AAron

“We fear the mandate will lead to a lack of inventory for our retailers during their historical re-stocking period and/or price increases to our consumers. We hereby call on the government to delay the deadline for mandatory full vaccination until a later date to allow us to work with our suppliers so that we can minimize the supply chain disruption.”–Eleonore Hamm, Recreation Vehicle Dealers Association (RVDA) of Canada

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Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily halted President Biden’s vaccine mandate for private sector workers, including cross border truckers. However, Canada has imposed a vax mandate on truckers crossing the U.S.-Canada border and already Canada is reporting that the cost to truck produce (fruit & veg) from the U.S. into Canada jumped by 25%!

Canada’s vax mandate on truckers began on 15 January, while Biden’s mandate was supposed to start on 22 January. Canada’s mandate is already causing massive delays in shipping, even cancelations, which result in less product in the stores to meet demand, which jacks-up prices. Also, ‘fully’ vaccinated drivers can now command top pay, again causing prices for end users (consumers) to go up.

Driver’s from Mexico, crossing through the U.S. into Canada, must also meet the new vax mandate.

Don’t take my word, here’s a list of links and video reports:

Fruitnet: New Covid rules push import costs higher!

Midland Reporter-Telegram: Only 50% to 60% of U.S. truckers are vaccinated, Canadian trucking companies prepping for lost freight contracts and increased costs of hiring ‘fully’ vaccinated drivers!

Toronto Sun: Canadian Prime Minister made trucker shortage worse, and you’ll pay for it!

Nogales International: Arizona-Mexico border businesses say they are prepped for the new border vax mandates, not concerned about it!

Truck dispatching company, AFT Dispatch/A2C Logistics Co, says Canada-U.S. vax mandates are double whammy for already struggling logistics operations, affecting at least 38-thousand truckers, as well as prices for food, lumber and oil:

CTV News warns of massive loss of drivers, government official says vax mandates are a good thing:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports government officials made an ‘error’ in reporting vax mandate for truckers:

Pandemic Perfidy: DELTA-CRON, ‘EXPERTS’ DISAGREE WITH EACH OTHER! WHAT IS ‘HEALTH CONDITION DELTA’?

Biden’s Borderland as of 04JAN2022: CONTAINER SHIPS JOIN THE FIGHT AGAINST ILLEGALS? BORDER PATROL DEATHS HIT RECORD HIGH? ‘BIDEN AIRLINES’ DIRECT FLIGHTS FOR ILLEGALS?

Operation CoViD-19, March 2020: TITLE 42 USC 265, THE RAPTURE DISAPPEARS BORDER CROSSERS?

Technology

Sioux #1 takes final flight inside the belly of a Chinook!

Video January 16, 2022 Hutchins AAron