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Robot Wars, 2025: That’s no FLIR pod, that’s a robot flying that helicopter! Or, whatever happened to AACUS?

Video July 9, 2022 Hutchins AAron

U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams, 11DEC2015.

AACUS (pronounced Ay-Kus, and not to be confused with the new British empire/Biden alliance known as AUKUS) = Autonomous Aerial Cargo Utility System

Boeing AH/MH-6 (MD 500) supposedly operated by a robot. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Samuel Ellis, 27FEB2014.

On 27FEB2014, a public demonstration was made of a new technology that supposedly would make human pilots for helicopters a thing of the past. Over U.S. Marine Corps Base Quantico, in Virginia, a Boeing AH/MH-6 (aka MD 500) combat (yes, the MD500 is mainly a combat ‘copter, not cargo) rotary wing was supposedly flown by AACUS, a system of software and sensors, which purportedly could be applied to any existing helicopter.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Samuel Ellis, 27FEB2014.

“This is a Navy-Marine Corps team project. We’ve taken a landing system that can autonomously land an unmanned helicopter or aircraft into a very dangerous landing zone, potentially with the touch of a tablet. This is an expeditionary type of capability and there was no better place to test it than Quantico.”-Rear Admiral Matt Klunder

Supposedly this Kaman K-Max is being flown by a robot. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Samuel Ellis, 20MAR2014.

Then on 20MAR2014, over Marine Corps Base Quantico, a Kaman K-Max cargo helicopter was also flown by AACUS, mounted on the belly between the main landing gear.

According to the U.S. Navy/Marine Corps (USN/USMC), as of April 2014, AACUS had cost taxpayers $98-million, since the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Innovative Naval Prototype program was started in 2012.

Notice the human pilot does not have his hands on the the control stick. U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams, 11DEC2015.

In December 2015, another AACUS demonstration was held using a Bell 206L (aka Kiowa), this time at the Flying Circus Aerodrome located in Bealeton, Virginia.

USN photo by John F. Williams, 11DEC2015.

USN photo by John F. Williams, 25MAY20216.

In May 2016, a different Bell 206 was tested with AACUS.

USMC video report by Corporal Thor Larson, 25MAY2016:

USN photo by John F. Williams, 30NOV2017.

Between February 2017 and November 2017, more public demonstrations, this time with a Viet Nam era Bell UH-1H ‘Huey’, and this time they were really talking-up AACUS: “This is more than just an unmanned helicopter. AACUS is an autonomy kit that can be placed on any rotary-wing platform and provide it with an autonomous capability. Imagine a Marine Corps unit deployed in a remote location, in rough terrain, needing ammunition, water, batteries or even blood. With AACUS, an unmanned helicopter takes the supplies from the base, picks out the optimal route and best landing site closest to the warfighters, lands, and returns to base once the resupply is complete, all with the single touch of a handheld tablet.”-Walter Jones, Executive Director of ONR

USMC natural sound video, by John F. Williams, of final testing of AACUS over Marine Corps Base Quantico, 12DEC2017:

USN photo by John F. Williams, 30NOV2017.

However, Lieutenant General Robert Walsh, of Marine Corps Combat Development Command, admitted they still didn’t know what to do with this latest & greatest technology, saying “…it’s up to us to determine how to use it…”

USN photo by John F. Williams, 15FEB2017.

Officials with the AACUS program also pointed out that the system can also be used to help human pilots in inclement weather: “It can be used as a pilot aid in degraded visual environments…”-Dennis Baker, AACUS program officer

USN photo by John F. Williams, 15FEB2017.

USMC dramatic music video explainer, by Sergeant Laiqa Hitt, 13DEC20217:

It was also revealed that AACUS is a technology that is part of the Department of Defense’s Force 2025, a modernization program started in 1995 and based on hypotheticals of what future warfare my require. Each branch of the DoD has their own term for it, the USMC calls theirs Marine Corps Force 2025, and for fiscal year 2017 they claimed that Phase II of Force 2025 was “way ahead”.

Dramatic video report, 13DEC2017, by John F. Williams (for some reason the audio for the last half of the report is silent):

USMC natural sound video, by John F. Williams, of presentation of AACUS to news media on Marine Corps Base Quantico, 15DEC2017:

USMC photo by Matt Lyman, 14MAY2018.

In 2018, AACUS testing was moved to Twenty Nine Palms, California.

Robot Huey refueling at a Forward Area Refueling Point. USMC photo by Matt Lyman, 14MAY2018.

Integrated Training Exercise 3-18 (in May 2018) is considered the first time an AACUS flown rotary wing aircraft flew, and delivered cargo, during a wargame.

Not much has been reported about AACUS since 2018, but in 2021, Vertical Magazine revealed that wildfire fighting contractor Columbia Helicopters was working with Aurora Flight Systems to apply AACUS to be able to conduct aerial fire fighting at night.

ASPNT Huey, photo via Aurora Flight Sciences.

On 10JAN2022, Aurora Flight Sciences revealed they were working on an upgraded AACUS which will use ‘detect & avoid’ systems to prevent midair collisions, and a ‘GPS-Denied’ system (All Source Position, Navigation, and Timing, aka ASPNT) to allow robot aircraft to fly where GPS is not available.

Aurora Flight Sciences is a subsidiary of Boeing, they are also involved with programs to integrate humans and robots, and developing anti-drone systems.

In June 2022, the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (aka CAL FIRE) made the first, ever in the U.S., series of night time water bombings on a wildfire called the Electra Fire. The Sikorsky S70i Fire Hawk was modified by United Rotorcraft, there was no indication what type of night flying system was being used.

U.S. Army photo, September 2017.

In September 2017, the U.S. Army conducted a robot helicopter operation using two Bell 206s (officially called RMAX UAS) to lift a 20 pound object and then fly it through an aerial obstacle course over Moffett Federal Airfield, California. It is part of the Army’s AMRDEC Aviation Development Directorate autonomous program, ongoing since 2002.

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U.S. Army, 2015: Force 2025 and Beyond

Royal Canadian Army, 2022: Due to lack of labor (being short 8-thousand personnel), the Force 2025 structure was adopted and is now being implemented.

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Texas Air National Guard hires robots to wash their F-16s!

Idaho, Technology, U.S.

U.S. Disaster 2022: U.S. military already warmed up for another year of fires! Labor shortage results in merging of military/civilian fire departments!

Video April 13, 2022 Hutchins AAron

March 2022:

U.S. Army photo by First Lieutenant Zade Koch, 30MAR2022.

In Colorado, the Fort Carson Fire Department partnered with the 52nd Brigade Engineer Battalion/2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team to conduct wildfire prevention by improving more than four miles of access roads used by firefighting units.

U.S. Army video, by Scott Sturkol, prescribed burns on Fort McCoy:

U.S. Army photo by Scott T. Sturkol, 28MAR2022.

The Wisconsin National Guard conducted airborne firefighting training on Fort McCoy.

Grissom Air Reserve Base in Indiana, firefighter survival school video by Technical Sergeant Joshua Weaver:

On 21MAR2022, a ‘four alarm’ wildfire started on Fort Devens, Massachusetts: “The difficulty is that the fire burns in an impact area. This impact area is about 650 acres that have been used by the Army for training since 1918, creating an area of unexploded ordinances and munitions, meaning firefighters can’t enter that area safely and have to work from the outside and from isolated fire roads that run through the impact area.”-Timothy Kelly, Devens Fire Chief

U.S. Army photo by Christopher Wilson, 15MAR2022.

Fort Sill, Oklahoma, conducted prescribed burns of 406 acres: “We plan these as much as a year in advance. We follow a strict set of parameters that not only protect us, the firefighters, but everyone on Fort Sill and the local communities.”-Jay Young, Chief of Fire Department Station 4

Puerto Rico Air National Guard video by Staff Sergeant Eliezer Soto:

Silent Florida Air National Guard video of Black Hawks, Hueys and Chinooks fighting the wildfires already taking place in Bay County:

U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez, 03MAR2022.

Beavercreek Township Fire Department, Ohio, held an intense three-day exercise at the Dayton Fire Department Training Center, and they asked Wright Patterson Air Force Base firefighters to officially judge the training: “We’ve asked Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for some of their chief officers to come over and help evaluate our performance. They are a disinterested, third party who have similar training and similar incident-management techniques. We’re regular mutual-aid partners, which means that if we have a major incident and we don’t have enough resources, they’ll send resources to support us and then vice versa.”-David VandenBos, Beavercreek Fire Chief

U.S. Army photo by Kevin Larson, 03MAR2022.

This is the final year of a multi-year U.S. Department of Defense led wildfire study. Fire behavior and smoke analysts from the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Weather Service, University of Florida and University of Washington, descended upon Fort Stewart, Georgia, to observe annual prescribed burns, as part of the study. Joe O’Brien, a project leader with the U.S. Forest Service, says that despite what was taught in the past, fires are a necessary part of keeping wildlands healthy, plants grow back quickly (I remember back in the 1970s and 1980s being told by California officials that it took decades for plant regrowth after fires, yet I saw for my own eyes that plants/trees had recovered within a year after wildfires in the San Bernardino mountains) and the net effect is actually carbon reduction: “If you don’t burn these forests, you lose all the species that depend on this kind of forests….. You’ll see regrowth occurring almost immediately…. The net amount of carbon in the atmosphere is being reduced by the formation of this char.”

February 2022:

U.S. Air Force video by Senior Airman Reilly McGuire, Dyess Air Force Base prescribed burns:

A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers power plant operator tells you how he survived for 30 hours being trapped by Oregon’s Beachie Creek Fire:

U.S. Marine Corps HazMat fire training on Camp Pendleton, California, video by Corporal Daniel Medina:

Searching for victims.

Idaho’s Air National Guard conducted a mass-casualty fire drill on Gowen Field.

U.S. Army photo by Mike Strasser, 03FEB2022.

Fort Drum, New York, got a new fire truck.

January 2022:

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Deanna Muir, 28JAN2022.

Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, got a new wildland/off road fire truck.

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Chase Sullivan, 28JAN2022.

Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, along with U.S. Fish and Wildlife, has been conducting prescribed burns to reduce fuel for wildfires: “There are years where we burn 3-thousand acres, and then there’s years where we burn 5-hundred acres. We can have a very wet year or a very dry year. It’s completely up to the weather.”-Matthew Stroupe, 2nd Civil Engineer Squadron

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Holly Cook, 26JAN2022.

The Dyess Air Force Base Fire Department conducted aircraft live-fire training with members of the City of Abilene Fire Department and the Abilene Regional Airport.

Video report, by Staff Sergeant Praxedis Pineda, Texas Army National Guard Black Hawk crews work the Bastrop fire:

Joint Base San Antonio-Bullies conducts prescribed burns, video by Todd Holly:

Photo by Wichita West Volunteer Fire Department, 08JAN2022.

On 08JAN2022, fire fighters from Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, responded to a BNSF train derailment which caused a fire. The train was carrying highly flammable denatured alcohol.

December 2021:

The Connecticut Air National Guard revealed a new plan to integrate military and civilian fire fighters, it is known as ‘regionalization’. Local civilian fire departments say it’s all about the labor shortage: “The old philosophy was, it’s our jurisdiction, we’ll take care of it. Nowadays, we’re so short on staffing, we can’t do it by ourselves anymore.”-Jim Griskewicz, Deputy Chief of the Windsor Fire Department

Connecticut Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Tamara R. Dabney, 10DEC2021.

Connecticut Air National Guard hosted a regionalization training event on Bradley Air National Guard Base. They also revealed a new computer automated dispatch (CAD) system which eliminates the need for humans to operate: “Once we switched dispatch centers in July 2021, we were able to switch to a newer CAD-based run card system. If a 911 caller calls into a dispatch center and says it’s smoking in the facility, starts that run card for the resources that are required for that type of incident. They automatically would be dispatching these units without us having to call four or five different departments….”-Chief Master Sergeant Robert Cross, Connecticut Air National Guard

U.S. Wildfires 2021: WASHINGTON MILITIA DEPLOYS!

MILITIA & U.S. ARMY BATTLES LARGEST EVER FOR HAWAII!

MINNESOTA MILITIA RESPONDS!

Kit Bashing, Technology

Cold War ‘Fake News’ Helicopter: UH-1H ‘Huey-Hind’

Video November 22, 2021 Hutchins AAron

U.S. Army (USA) NTC (National Training Center), California, October 1987. USA photo by Sergeant First Class Carrasco.

Before the U.S. Army could get its hands on a real Mil 24 Hind-D, it had to ‘fake it’ using the old UH-1H (improved D model) Iroquois (Huey). The Huey-Hind was also known as the JUH-1 Sokol (not to be confused with the JUH-1H SOTAS [Stand Off Target Acquisition System]).

October 1985, NTC (Fort Irwin), California. USA photo by Mary Jacobs.

The U.S. Army propagandists tried and tried to convince everybody that their OpFor (Opposing Forces) Huey looked like a Mi-24 Hind-D.

October 1985, NTC (Fort Irwin), California. USA photo by Mary Jacobs.

The launch rails look more like what you would see on a Mil 8/17 Hip.

February 1987, Fort Irwin, California. USA photo by Donna Fulghum.

NTC, October 1987. USA photo by Sergeant First Class Carrasco.

Even in the air the Huey-Hind still looks like a Huey.

Fort Irwin, California, March 1988. USA photo.

JUH-1 Sokol photo via NTC Aviation Company, Barstow, California.

Photo via NTC Aviation Company, Fort Irwin, California.

Video posted February 2010:

Photo via NTC Aviation Company, Barstow, California.

Video posted in November 2011:

Retirement, December 2011. USA photo, Fort Irwin, California.

UH-1 Iroquois operations over Fort Irwin, California, began in 1980. Most of the Hueys were used for their usual purpose, troop transport. In December 2011, the last of the Hueys, including a former fake-news UH-1H Huey-Hind, were officially retired. Less than a handful were transferred to the U.S. Air Force.

Fake News Tank:

USAF photo by John Hamilton.

WORLD’S BIGGEST R/C T-72?

How to build your own Fake News BMP-2

Fake News Aircraft:

USMC photo by Sergeant A. D. Gruart, March 1986.

USMC MiG-23?

Cold War Paint Job: UH-1N IN S-E-A CAMO

Cold War Battle Damage: THE HIND-END OF DESERT STORM

Technology

Vehicle I-D: Iraqi Huey

Video May 10, 2020 Hutchins AAron

According to a 2007 Reuters report, the neighboring country of Jordan donated their old UH-1H helicopters to Iraq, but the U.S. taxpayers paid to rebuild the Hueys at a cost of $3.5-million, each!

U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Randy Redman, 18APR2011.

April 2011, Exercise Lion.

U.S. Army photo by First Lieutenant Jason Sweeney, 18MAY2011.

Air Assault training on Camp Mejid, photo by Staff Sergeant Tanya Thomas, 11NOV2010.

Prior to 2010, the Iraqis used a smaller flag on their Hueys.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Michael Keller, 14JUL2009.

Here’s the smaller flag.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Michael Keller, 17JUL2009.

Iraqi Bell UH-1H Huey take-off from Taji Air Base, July 2009.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Michael Keller, 17JUL2009.

Their mission is to pick-up a soldier, who is considered recovered enough from being gut-shot, at the Air Force Theater Hospital at Balad Air Base.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Michael Keller, 17JUL2009.

U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer First Class Carmichael Yepez, 31JUL2009.

The same Iraqi Huey (#206) is taking off from Forward Operating Base Diamondback in Mosul, at the end of July 2009.

USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Carmichael Yepez, 31JUL2009.

Video, pre-flight checks:

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Chuck Gill, 28SEP2008.

Al Taji Air Base, 11SEP2008.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Paul Villanueva the Second, 11SEP2008.

Flaming engine start.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Paul Villanueva the Second, 11SEP2008.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Paul Villanueva the Second, 12SEP2008.

Door gunner uses Soviet era PK-C machine gun.

Camp Taji, USAF photo by Senior Airman Julianne Showalter, 28APR2008.

Video, over-fly Taji:

Vehicle I-D: IRAQI ARMOR, AFTER THE INVASION

RECOVERING UH-1 SKELETONS

Technology

Recovering UH-1 skeletons

Video April 14, 2020 Hutchins AAron

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Ursula V. Smith, 25SEP2019.

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.

USMC photo by Corporal Ursula V. Smith, 25SEP2019.

Video, Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course 1-20 at Site 2, YPG, 25SEP2019:

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Claudia Nix, 28MAR2019.

They did the same thing earlier, in March 2019.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Claudia Nix, 28MAR2019.

From 2017, “Just what I need for my collection.”

This pic of the tail section recovery was taken in March 2015.

Video from 2015:

From September 2014.

Also from September 2014.

U.S. Army’s Company D, 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, conduct Downed Aircraft Recovery Team (DART) training on Hohenfels, Germany, January 2018.

April 2017, U.S. Army’s B Company, 277th Aviation Support Battalion, 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, conduct DART training on Oberdachstetten Training Area, Germany.

U.S. Army’s 16th Combat Aviation Brigade, 7th Infantry Division on Yakima Training Center, Washington June 2016.

Video from the Huey’s tail rotor as it’s taken for a ride by a UH-60M Black Hawk:

Fort Stewart, Georgia, 2014.

RECOVERY OPS: DKM PRINZ EUGEN

VEHICLE I-D: MIL 24 HIND ‘SATAN’S CHARIOTS’

International

New Oil War: Trump deploys combat troops to Philippines? Facebook asked to help!

June 10, 2017 Hutchins AAron

10 JUN 2017 (11:39 UTC-07 Tango 06) 20 Khordad 1396/15 Ramadan 1438/16 Bing Wu 4715

The admitted extrajudicial murderer and current president of Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, begged Donald Trump for help in fighting so-called Islamic insurgents, and Trump complied.

U.S. supplied Vietnam era ‘Huey’ rotary wing about to land in Marawi.

At this point no details are being given about the U.S. involvement, but it sounds like the ‘christian’ Filipino military was getting their butts kicked in the fight to re-take Marawi City.

It should be noted that Marawi City has a checkered history. It wasn’t until the 20th Century that it was officially named, by the government, an “Islamic City” in an attempt to attract investment from oil-rich Muslim countries.

‘Christian’ government troops patrol in front of one of the many Mosques in Marawi.

Initially main stream ‘real news’ media reports stated that U.S. “special forces” were sent in, but Filipino field commanders swear there are no U.S. boots on the ground, that it’s just “technical support”. Interestingly the majority of Filipino losses were at the hands of their own air force (supposedly by mistake) on 01 JUN 2017!

Remember, this is a country where the president (not even a year into his presidency) recently declared martial law in Mindanao after months of boasting of murdering people by cop, under the guise of fighting a drugs war (“Hitler massacred three million Jews….there’s three million drug addicts…I’d be happy to slaughter them.”). And, recently Duterte even demanded the U.S. military leave his country while openly considering a military alliance with China! It should be noted that fighting between rebels and the Filipino government skyrocketed after Duterte declared martial law.

A rebel waving an ‘Islamic State’ flag.

Not only is the Philippines asking for help from the United States, but from Facebook as well. Duterte says Facebook has 63 ‘fake news’ accounts linked to a new rebel group known as Maute, and he wants Facebook to shut-em down. Facebook replied with “We will remove accounts and content that violate these policies when we are made aware of them.”

‘Muslim’ women flashing the V for Victory sign? Main stream news media said locals were told to wave the “peace sign” if they didn’t want to get shot by occupying ‘christian’ government troops.

The Philippine army claims they’ve killed the founders of the Maute group. At the end of May, Duterte’s military commanders claimed they were “close” to re-taking the city.

A Polish made Filipino rotary wing brought down over Marawi.

Is anybody wondering why this seemingly sudden war in Mindanao? In 1960s the Sulu Sea, just off the west coast of Mindanao, was found to be full of petroleum. The Sulu Sea oil field (Sulu Sea Block) is part of the East Palawan Basin, which is connected to the West Palwan Basin, which is connected to the super oil rich South China Sea Basin. The Philippine Petroleum Resource Assessment Project estimates that the Philippines is sitting on nine billion barrels of fuel oil equivalent (bfoe), with the majority being in the West Palawan and Sulu Sea regions!

In 2009 ExxonMobil and BHP Billiton International Exploration began jointly exploring the possibility of getting at that oil. In 2010, ExxonMobil signed a security deal with the Philippine military, over concerns of terrorism and piracy. The Philippines military promised to deploy surveillance aircraft and two patrol boats. It was called a “No cash involved” deal, ExxonMobil would supply all the logistics needed by the Philippine military to patrol the area. The ExxonMobil security deal was also sanctioned by the U.S. Department of State, who saw it as part of the legally undeclared War on Terror. Analysts with BMI Research praised the deal saying “This provision allows for increased military assistance to the Philippines and ensures that the country has access to external expertise in combating domestic insurgencies.”

The Philippines even established the WestMinCom (Western Mindanao Command) to establish control over the oil rich area.

However, in 2010 Australian oil company Tap Oil exited the Sulu Sea oil game, saying there really wasn’t enough oil to be had. Then at the end of 2011, and after spending at least $400-million USD exploring, ExxonMobil also pulled out saying the amount of petroleum they found was not enough to justify full-blown production.

Seemingly in response, the Philippines Department of Energy claimed they found yet more oil sites and encouraged foreign oil companies to get involved. In 2012, Philippines signed a deal with Chinese oil company Seng Hong Exploration-South Seas Petroleum to conduct drilling in Mindanao. The site saw two earlier attempts to extract oil/natural gas but were abandoned in the 1990s, supposedly due to low oil prices. Government administrators admitted that oil needed to be above $50 per barrel to make Philippine petroleum a “commercially viable option” for oil companies. In 2013, French oil company Total and Malaysia’s Mitra Energy became the latest players in the Sulu Sea game. Total is reported to have an exploration contract that’s good until 2020.

In 2015, the Malaysian military announced it was establishing a “forward operating base” in the Sulu Sea because “The oil platforms of petroleum companies on the high seas will be the first to face any threat out there, similar to that posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.”

In 2016, videos started popping up on YouTube showing that several farmers in Mindanao drilling for water hit natural gas instead! At the end of 2016 Platts Marine reported “Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia are considering to establish a high security corridor along the Sulu Sea…. ….because billions of dollars worth of commodities move to and fro on commercial ships in the vicinity of the Sulu Sea….”

In March 2017, The Diplomat reported “…..coordinated trilateral patrols to tackle security challenges in the Sulu-Sulawesi Seas…. ….would be inaugurated sometime in April or May…. …the Sulu Sea patrols are…..a more strategic attempt to replicate the network of patrols conducted by the littoral countries in the Malacca Straits, a critical waterway which carried more than one fourth of the world’s commerce and half its oil.”

Inquirer.net, 25 OCT 2016: “US troops are staying despite President Rodrigo Duterte’s pronouncement that they should go and leave Mindanao.”

Pivot to Asia: Under operation Pacific Partnership, U.S. taxpayers are being forced to build-up the economies of Sri Lank, Malaysia, Indonesia, Timor Leste, Philippines (now under martial law) and Vietnam. All countries surrounding oil rich South China Sea.

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U.S. AIR FORCE ‘ADMITS’ IT’S ALL ABOUT THE OIL!

Idaho, Technology

Pocatello Airport 02 August 2014: Best damn FREE airshow, yet!

Image August 3, 2014 Hutchins AAron

Who knew that this free airshow would also be the last for Idaho’s Pocatello Airport?

Click pics to make bigger, photos by AAron B. Hutchins:

The MiGs and Fury gave an awesome dogfight display over our heads (my cheap-o cam is not good enough to take pics of far away/fast moving object) . The MiG-17 had its afterburner going most of the time. Must praise the sponsors of this FREE airshow: Pocatello Regional airport, AVCenter/AVFuel, Citizens Community Bank, FMC, RockLandWindFarm, BadlandsBattlefield, TO Engineers, Home Depot, Community Animal Hospital, D.L. Evans Bank, Hertz, JRM Foundation, Idaho Power, Petersen Inc, Portneuf Medical Center, Sanctuary Wealth Management, Allstate, Bank of Idaho, Clarion Inn, Connections Credit Union.

VULTEE BT-13 POKEY AIRPORT, 2012 & 2014

Idaho, Technology

East Idaho Wildfire 2012: Busy 30 minutes at Pocatello Airport, as fire fighting aircraft fly into action

Image July 12, 2012 Hutchins AAron

The following pics (which you can make bigger by clicking on them) were taken by AAron B. Hutchins, within a thirty minutes period, at the Pocatello Regional Airport (USFS Air Tanker Base), on 12JUL2012, between 11:30 hours and 12:00 hours.