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CoViD Oddities-2: U.S. surpasses China! Russia to rescue U.S.? Who’s the “world champion in stupidity” (it’s not the U.S.)?

CoViD-19=CoronaVirus Disease-2019

Pandemics reveal the strangest things about how humans act.  Two things specifically regarding this CoViD-19 supposed pandemic (since influenza is still killing tens of thousands more people than CoViD-19); panic buying and then disappearance of toilet paper stocks, and panic buying of certain food products, with officials telling everybody there’s plenty while at the same time the supply system can’t seem to keep the shelves stocked even though in many areas panic buying has stopped, and stores have implemented limits on how much you can buy.  Pandemics also reveal that many accepted ‘facts’ about how pathogens spread are bullshit!

Incomplete list of links to real news articles;

Endangered wild animals now thriving in locked down CoViD-Cities?

Two fifths of humans under CoViD-19 lockdown, globally!

 ‘Pink Eye’, Loss Of Taste Or Smell Could Be Early Signs Of COVID-19.

Corona-Virus opens door to secondary infections from treatment-resistant killer bacteria!  (is that what is actually killing people?)

AUSTRALIA: New South Wales to conduct aggressive search for so called undetected CoViD-19 infections in the city of Sydney!

BELGIUM: A cat appears to have caught the coronavirus, but it’s complicated

CANADA: University of Alberta reveals cats infected with coronavirus were successfully treated, suggests using the feline anti-viral meds on humans! 

 CHINA: Will now include infected people with no symptoms (asymptomatic) to its official CoViD-19 stats. 

COLOMBIA: Covid-19 sparks deadly prison riots “If the virus gets in here, we’re done for”

GERMANY: Finance minister obsessing over economic damage caused by CoViD-19 kills his-self! 

Healthcare system asks for help from foreign doctors, but government bureaucracy blocks foreign doctors from assisting!

INDIA: News media says CoViD-19 has revealed India to be the “world champion in stupidity”

JAPAN:  City wiped out by 2011 tsunami was hoping 2020 Olympics would save its economy

What code words are being used by Japanese news media regarding CoViD-19? 

KOREA: Capital city of southern half to provide foreigners with masks.

CoViD-19 pushing economy off the cliff.

NETHERLANDS: Claims masks sent from China are defective

Scientists claim they’ve found CoViD-19 living in the sewage treatment systems, before humans started getting infected!!!

RUSSIA: The President of Russia announced that by agreement with the President of United States, Russia will air-lift medical supplies to the U.S. 

SWEDEN: So called experts say only a vaccine or “herd immunity” can save us!

UNITED KINGDOM: Middle-aged people “at greater risk of dying from Covid-19, just like elderly”

UNITED STATES:  Revealed; government spy agencies now spying on other countries CoViD-19 responses!

Death toll now exceeds China’s

She had COVID-19, but no insurance. Her treatment cost $34,972.

California created a so-called covert medical-martial-law police force called Health Corps???

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Interesting that just two days before the mayor of Los Angeles shutdown Farmers’ Markets that Farmers’ Markets across California reported increased sales and were being praised as being food life-lines for the public!

Immigrant loving Colorado news media report CoViD-19 anti-Asian harassment on the increase

Colorado dog being used to deliver food 

Mormon owner of medical operation, and former political candidate, in rural Idaho admits “We knew it was coming….    ……..I’m not pointing fingers because I think it was the private sector, I think it was the state and federal government, everyone fell, flat-footed.”  He also pointed out that testing in Idaho is taking a long time because the tests are sent out-of-state, and there is a backlog because the states doing the testing are themselves CoViD-19 hot zones.

Anybody old enough to remember chicken pox parties?  People in New Jersey hosting CoViD-19 parties!  Supposedly actual parties, not gatherings to get intentionally infected.

New York Post calls whiny rich entertainment millionaires who’re blaming Trump for everything “Woke Stupidity”

King County, Washington, says violation of shelter-in-place will result in jail-time!

Homeless shelters in Washington shutdown due to CoViD-19, pushing potentially infected people onto the street, despite new law that could result in the homeless being put in jail for violating isolation order!

In Washington a little known CoViD-19 response ‘brain’ is located near Spokane Community College

COVID ODDITIES: ASSAULT BY COUGH, INFECTED DOG DIES, MORE RE-INFECTIONS, NOT HAVING INSURANCE MEANS YOU DIE!

Dreamlifter, and other 747 cargo planes

British Airway’s BOAC 747-400 at United Kingdom’s Royal International Air Tattoo, July 2019.

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Michigan Air National Guard’s 127 Wing deploys on a 747-400 people hauler, April 2019.

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   Video, 171st Air Refueling Wing, Pennsylvania Air National Guard load-up contracted 747 (for their first time) with cargo for Guam, March 2019:

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Michigan Air National Guard load-up a Atlas Air 747 cargo hauler, January 2019.
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In November 2013, an Atlas Air operated 747-400 Dreamlifter flew to McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, to pick-up parts for construction of 787 Dreamliners from a nearby manufacturer.
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Official USAF reports say the pilot of the Boeing Dreamlifter mistakenly landed at Colonel James Jabara Airport!
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Boeing claims its Dreamlifter can haul more cargo by volume than any aircraft in the world.

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Video, South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing contracted 747 cargo plane for deployment to ‘undisclosed location’ in Southwest Asia, 2018:

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Video, South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing contracted 747 cargo plane for their deployment to Korea, July 2016:

 

Kadena Air Base, Japan. The Missouri Air National Guard off-loaded the 747, one of three early model 747s operated by Kalitta Air.

Misawa Air Base, Japan, 2016.

National Air Cargo 747-400 tail number N949CA lands at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, February 2012.N949CA crashed in Afghanistan, April 2013, killing the seven crew.

Contracted 747 cargo haulers sit in Romania, waiting to be loaded up with supplies for troops in Afghanistan, July 2013.

Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, 2012.

A National 747 at Tinian International Airport, Northern Mariana Islands, during Exercise Forager Fury 2012.

Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, April 2011.

Travis AFB, California, April 2009.

KC-135 STRATOTANKER BATH

Bare Metal: KC-135R gets stripped

Ohio Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Wendy Kuhn, 02MAR2015.

Ohio Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Wendy Kuhn, 04MAR2015.

Every five years, KC-135 Stratotankers undergo depot maintenance by the 564th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

Ohio Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Wendy Kuhn, 04MAR2015.

The process includes stripping off an aircraft’s paint, removing the engines, dropping the boom, removing and replacing deficient parts, and any upgrades as necessary.  It takes an average of 125 days.

USAF photo by Kelly White, 28APR2015.

Video, part one KC-135R depot work:

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Kiaundra Miller, 23NOV2019.

Tennessee Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Kendra Owenby, 19JAN2017.

Video, part two KC-135R depot work (no audio on slo-mo parts of the video):

Tennessee Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Kendra Owenby, 19JAN2017.

Video, part three KC-135R depot work:

BARE METAL: NASA’S MD-11 EXPERIMENTAL

 C-130 PAINT PREP, OR THE EMPEROR GETS SOME NEW CLOTHES

C-17 STRIPPED

 B-1B & B-52H

KC-135 Stratotanker bath

121st Air Refueling Wing, Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base, Ohio, June 2018.

I don’t think this has anything to do with washing-up, but apparently the Airmen with 92nd Maintenance Group think break-dancing helps. Fairchild Air Force Base (AFB), Washington, January 2018.

Video interview, with funky music, 100th Maintenance Group washes KC-135, RAF Mildenhall in United Kingdom, 2017:

Washing the main-gear doors, 168th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Eielson AFB, Alaska, December 2017.

Kadena Air Base, Japan, 2016.  The wash-rack (aka Bird-Bath, officially Aircraft Rinse System) takes 90 seconds to wash the salty sea air off the skin of the Stratotanker.

KC-135R passes through wash rack on Andersen AFB, Guam, 2014.

Hand washing KC-135R, Altus AFB, Oklahoma, 2014.

Washing the front landing gear of a KC-135R.

According to the Altus AFB info, it takes eight hours to wash your KC-135.

Every 120 days KC-135 get a scrub-down.

Video explainer, washing KC-135 at McDill AFB, Florida, 2013:

EC-135E FIRE-BIRD, 10329 COMES BACK TO LIFE, AGAIN! OR, WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR EXTRA KC-135 KIT.

WASH YOUR HAWK!

Operation CoViD-19: Border Guards

The ‘main stream’ U.S. news media is doing a piss-poor job of showing what the U.S. Customs and Border Protection is doing during this Corona-Virus Disease-2019 pandemic.  It’s as if they’re deliberately trying to make it look like there’s no government response.

Video, Otay Mesa Port of Entry Commercial Inspection Facility, California, 27MAR2020:

Video, Mariposa Port of Entry, Arizona, 36MAR2020:

San Ysidro, California, 25MAR2020.

Pharr Point of Entry, Texas, 23MAR2020.

Near Sasabe, Arizona, 22MAR2020.

 

Title 42 USC 265: “Whenever the Surgeon General determines that by reason of the existence of any communicable disease in a foreign country there is serious danger of the introduction of such disease into the United States, and that this danger is so increased by the introduction of persons or property from such country that a suspension of the right to introduce such persons and property is required in the interest of the public health, the Surgeon General, in accordance with regulations approved by the President, shall have the power to prohibit, in whole or in part, the introduction of persons and property from such countries or places as he shall designate in order to avert such danger, and for such period of time as he may deem necessary for such purpose.”

OPERATION COVID-19: TITLE 42 USC 265, THE RAPTURE DISAPPEARS BORDER CROSSERS?

OPERATION COVID-19: MISSIONS OF MERCY & COMFORT

Operation CoViD-19: Missions of Mercy & Comfort

USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) and Comfort (T-AH 20) will not act as quarantine/isolation ships as first feared, but will try to ease the burden of land based hospitals dealing with CoViD-19 patients by taking onboard people who are not sick with the CoronaVirus.

Maintenance on chemical analyzer onboard USNS Mercy, 26MAR2020.

Reserve Sailors report for duty aboard USNS Comfort, 26MAR2020.

Video, 24MAR2020, USNS Comfort load-up at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, next stop New York City:

Video, USNS Mercy steams out of San Diego, 23MAR2020, on its way to the Port of Los Angeles:

Prepping slides for microscopes onboard USNS Mercy 26MAR2020.

Video (from a few years ago) explaining the medical capabilities of Mercy and Comfort:

Video, USNS Mercy tour part 1:

Video tour USNS Mercy part 2:

 

USNS Mercy gets towed away by re-possessors driving tractor-trailer due the Navy failing to make its payments!  Just kidding, it’s a perspective trick of the camera.

SUDDEN HALT TO COVID-19 INFECTIONS? IT’S CALLED ‘EPIDEMIC BURST-FADE-OUT’.

Sudden halt to CoViD-19 infections? It’s called ‘epidemic burst-fade-out’.

No, not the hair style!

“A well-behaved epidemic with build-up, peak, and fade out phases will be bell shaped….”Deciphering Global Epidemics: Analytical Approaches to the Disease Records, 1998

“A wide epidemic burst forth suddenly and swept the country in one month.”Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association, Volume 21, 1924

“Only the natural interplay of transmission factors would determine when it would fade out……     ……Once the epidemic had burst upon the population….”Agents of Apocalypse: Epidemic Disease in the Colonial Philippines, 1995

“Stochastic [random] effects may cause fade-out of an infectious disease in a population immediately after an epidemic outbreak.”WKB theory of epidemic fade-out in stochastic populations, 2009.  Note that ‘stochastic’ is a mathematical word that means ‘random’, in other words epidemiologists don’t really know why diseases suddenly stop sickening or killing people.

Epidemic burst fade-out describes the life-cycle of a new (novel) pathogen, usually a virus.   It’s normal; a big bang at the beginning with people wondering where the hell it came from, then panic as it ravages the human hosts, then suddenly, without explanation, it’s gone.

CoViD-19 is not a disease, it is a pathogen.  Disease is the result of a pathogen infecting a host (victim) when the environmental conditions favor the pathogen.

Pathogen=Bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause disease.

For many old pathogens epidemiologists know, because of studying past disease outbreaks, what are the environmental conditions that favor those pathogens.  When you are dealing with a novel (new) pathogen there is no way to know the perfect environmental conditions for it to strike, because there is no way to know that a novel pathogen exists.  But even more amazing is that epidemiologists don’t understand why pathogens suddenly halt their disease causing rampages: “Some key outstanding questions remain unanswered, but we may discover the answers within the scope of current research studies. With those answers, we’ll not only inform disease prevention and control strategies, but we’ll also be able to shed light on our basic understanding of organismal evolution.”-Sarah McDonald, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute

One important environmental factor that humans should be able to control (but don’t) is the level of physical and mental stress a potential host is experiencing.  Disease outbreaks (burst) hit the big cities/metro areas first and hardest.  So many people living so close together is enough to push the stress levels sky-high.  Stress is not just negative, there is such a thing as positive stress.  Anything that pushes your emotional system to a negative or positive extreme is stress.  Many extroverted people love the big cities because of the physical closeness to other people, but pathogens also love the metro-closeness of humans.   Metro areas are giant petri dishes creating the perfect environment for a pathogen to burst forth.  (don’t forget that ever since the stress inducing Industrial Revolution there’s been a rapid acceleration of pathogens, also see The effects of industrialisation – Causes of illness and disease)

Perhaps staying calm, not getting excited or upset, is the best defense against pathogens.  Like they said in the movie Airplane:

Arrogant humans think they are the ones who make diseases go away, through vaccines, treatments, social distancing, godly cleanliness, isolationism, as demonstrated by these news media articles:

How South Korea flattened the curve

Hong Kong has flattened the curve but can it stay the course?

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EPIDEMIC BURST FADE OUT: NEW FLU KILLING DOGS AND CATS IN METRO AREAS!

Operation CoViD-19: New Normal National Guard

The ‘main stream’ U.S. news media is doing a piss-poor job of showing what the various state National Guard units are doing during this Corona-Virus Disease-2019 pandemic.  It’s as if they’re deliberately trying to make it look like there’s no government response.

Evil employers are using CoViD-19 as an excuse to layoff employees en-masse, resulting in a sudden increase in people qualifying for free food from food banks.

CALIFORNIA:  Video interview, the director of the Interfaith Food Bank, in Amador County, explains why National Guard is taking over food banks; the regular food bank employees/volunteers were ordered by the government to stay home:

National Guard engineers in Riverside deploying to assist with the construction of federal ‘medical facilities’ (camps?) on the Channel Islands Air National Guard Station, 25MAR2020.

Video of National Guard working the Second Harvest of Silicon Valley Food Bank, San Jose, 24MAR2020:

CONNECTICUT:  National Guard deliver state Department of Public Health’s portable beds with linens to mobile hospitals, 25MAR2020.

FLORIDA:  Long lines waiting to get into the Hard Rock Stadium for CoViD-19 testing, 24MAR2020.

National Guard and the state Department of Health screening passengers from out-of-state at the Orlando Airport, 25MAR2020.

Video of Marlins baseball park testing site, 25MAR2020, only for people 65 years of age or older:

Florida National Guard works with state Department of Health inspectors at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport, 25MAR2020.

Official video report, opening of Orange County testing site, 25MAR2020:

At Jacksonville Airport, Florida National Guard assist the state Department of Health in screening passengers from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, 25MAR2020.

HAWAII: National Guard personnel undergo daily medical checks.

IDAHO: This is the state Emergency Operations Center in Boise.  As of 25MAR2020, the emergency alert level is at Level 2, the governor of Idaho ordered all non-essential business to shutdown, and residents to ‘shelter-in-place’.

LOUISIANAOfficial video report:

MARYLAND:  National Guard assist with food distribution at the Greenmount Recreation Center in Baltimore, 24MAR2020.

Video explaining that National Guard is actually supplying the federal government with pandemic response material:

National Guard provides transportation service to silly-vilians, 17MAR2020.

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Setting up 250 cots at the Stan Spirou Field House at Southern New Hampshire University, 23MAR2020.

NEW JERSEY: CoViD-19 testing site at Kean University, 25MAR2020.

Long lines waiting for testing at Bergen Community College, 24MAR2020.

National Guard using their Lakota helicopters to fly CoViD-19 ‘observation’ missions.

NEW YORK:  Off-loading medical supplies CoViD-19 Mobile Testing Center at the South Beach Behavioral Center, Staten Island, 19MAR2020.

NORTH CAROLINA: Warehouse ops in in the Raleigh-Durham area, 23MAR2020.

OHIO: National Guard making home deliveries of food in the Toledo area, 25MAR2020.

TEXAS: 24MAR2020, the state Military Department preps for CoViD-19 ops.

VERMONT: Assembling a triage tent for the University of Vermont Medical Center Emergency Room, 24MAR2020.

Washington DC:  Providing security for local and federal government offices, 24MAR2020.

WEST VIRGINIA:  National Guard hand out boxes of food, along with the Greater Greenbrier Long Term Recovery Committee, in Lewisburg, 25MAR2020.

OPERATION COVID-19: ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE, MARINES (FEMA orders search for CoViD camps!)

OPERATION COVID-19: NATIONAL GUARD ‘FOOD’ SURGE

Operation CoViD-19: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines

The ‘main stream’ U.S. news media is doing a piss-poor job of showing what the Department of Defense is doing during this Corona-Virus Disease-2019 pandemic.  It’s as if they’re deliberately trying to make it look like there’s no government response.

GERMANY:  U.S. Air Force (USAF) CoViD-19 screenings at Ramstein Medical Clinic, Ramstein Air Base, 19MAR2020.

U.S. Army medics prep for another day of CoViD-19, Hohenfels, 18MAR2020.

Video, U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria CoViD-19 response:

Employees of the Miesau Army Depot Child Development Center disenfect the now shuttered daycare center, 20MAR2020.

Employees of the U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz S6 (computer geeks) report being swamped with requests for laptops after U.S. Army personnel were ordered to ‘telework’.

ITALY: A USAF C-130J from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, delivered a En-Route Patient Staging System (ERPSS) to the Italian Ministry of Defense.  ERPSS provides 10 patient holding/staging beds and can handle a maximum throughput of 40 patients in a 24 hours period.

Despite Italy being hit hard by CoViD-19, infrastructure work must still be done.  USAF civil engineers replace a fire hydrant at Aviano Air Base, 23MAR2020.

JAPAN:  Commander Fleet Activities Yokosuka (CFAY) Security Department conducts CoVid-19 checks at the gate, 25MAR2020. Vending machines on Misawa Air Base get disinfected, 24MAR2020.

KOREA:  U.S. Army Soldier on Camp Carroll has the fit of his respirator tested during CoViD-19 response training, 24MAR2020.

Going into battle?

This is how the U.S. Army mops floors in CoViD infected Korea.

Using CBRNE vehicle decontamination procedures to deal with CoViD-19.

UNITED KINGDOM: The USAF 100th Air Refueling Wing is based on Royal Air Force (RAF) Mildenhall, which has a confirmed case of CoViD-19 infection, directly connected to a USAF 48th Fighter Wing Airman at RAF Lakenheath who is also positive with CoViD-19.

UNITED STATES: Arkansas; Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System is actively screening for CoViD-19 (just to be clear, the VA is separate from the Department of Defense).

Arizona; Drive-thru meds delivery at Luke Air Force Base, 23MAR2020.

CoViD-19 testing is not painless, Luke AFB, 23MAR2020.

California;  In the San Diego area, two sailors assigned to Naval Special Warfare (NSW) tested positive for Coronavirus Disease 2019, 22MAR2020.

After loading up with CoViD-19 ammo, the USNS Mercy finally sailed out of San Diego on its CoViD-19 mission, 23MAR2020.

CoViD-19 screening aboard USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6).

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District employee inspects a facility in Santa Clara, 23MAR2020, as potential use for Alternate Care Facility (ACF, aka quarantine/isolation camp).  The order to search for potential CoViD ‘camps’ came from FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency).

After a Marine on Marine Corps Air Station Miramar tested positive for CoVid-19, the post office was disinfected and marked-off for proper social distancing, 23MAR2020.

Colorado; Video of CoViD-19 screening at Peterson Air Force Base, 23MAR2020:

Hawaii; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) technical survey team confer with a U.S. Public Health Service officer about the potential of using the Hawaii Convention Center as a FEMA ordered Alternate Care Facility (ACF, aka quarantine/isolation camp).

Marine Corps Base Hawaii’s Kaneohe Bay Branch Health Clinic implements CoViD-19 protections.

Illinois; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Chicago District have been actively assessing potential sites for Alternate Care Facility (ACF, aka quarantine/isolation camp).

Maine; Four NSW sailors are currently isolated and restricted in movement onboard Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor where they tested positive while training.

Mississippi; CoVid-19 screenings outside the Keesler Medical Center at Keesler Air Force Base, 23MAR2020.

North Carolina; Marines returning from overseas now undergoing CoViD-19 screening at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point.

North Dakota;  Volunteers on Grand Forks Air Force Base with free food for grade school students now unable to go to school due to CoViD-19 shutdowns.

Pennsylvania; Tobyhanna Army Depot employee performs maintenance on a much needed ventilator.

Maintenance on an infusion pump.

Texas; Airmen working the Ross Clinic’s pharmacy, on Goodfellow Air Force Base, using Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).  So far no cases of CoViD infection on the base.

Goodfellow AFB has also switched to curb-side pharmacy ops only.

New recruits arriving at Lackland AFB for basic training have a new lesson to learn; social distancing.

OPERATION COVID-19: ARMY, AIR FORCE, NAVY, MARINES

OPERATION COVID-19: TITLE 42 USC 265, THE RAPTURE DISAPPEARS BORDER CROSSERS?

OPERATION COVID-19: NATIONAL GUARD ‘FOOD’ SURGE

Vehicle I-D: NASA Canberras, B-57B ‘Hush Kit’ & WB-57F Rivet Chip/Slice

Images of B-57B and WB-57F via NASA, USAF and USMC.

This NASA B-57B was used to test the jet engine ‘mufflers’ (aka Hush Kits, officially Exhaust Noise Suppressors) that would be used on 1960s-early ’70s jet airliners.  Dryden, Edwards AFB.

Wright J65-W-5 turbojets power the B-57B.

Note the tail support rod, yes, even real jet aircraft used tail supports when parked for a long time.  Also, the Hush Kits added a lot of weight to the rear of center-of-balance.

According to the information with this NASA photo the aircraft was painted in fluorescent colors, but it didn’t specify.  They probably meant Day-Glo, which is the copyrighted name of the DayGlo Color Corporation.

09DEC1971, tail code 809 is bare metal with NASA markings and a ‘V’ under the cockpit.  The V stood for Viking Mars Lander parachute test program.

11 years later, tail code 809 in the standard white with blue stripes NASA colors.  Wing tip pitots (both sides), different nose tip and pitot.  In 1982, 809 began  atmospheric research, everything from wind currents to air pollution.

809 was retired in 1987.

USAF video report about the history of the B-57:

 

By 2015 only three B-57s were operating, all NASA WB-57Fs.  The aircraft in the middle of the group is configured differently from the other two.  (clicking on some of the smaller pics in this post will make them bigger)

 The  U.S. Air Force RB-57F was developed in the early 1960s to take air samples over enemy countries to determine if they had conducted nuclear bomb experiments.  However, that was the secret mission, the official mission of RB-57Fs was weather forecasting.  USAF RB-57Fs were plagued by engine problems and structural failures.  The engines used are Pratt & Whitney TF33-P-11A turbofans.  In 1968 RB-57Fs were re-designated WB-57F.

This WB-57F has a modified foil covered nose carrying instruments to track a 2017 solar eclipse.  Beginning in 1968 NASA began modifying WB-57Fs, code names Rivet Chip and Rivet Slice, for its specific high-altitude research.  Every year the aircraft are modified with different sensors, and even new paint schemes, for the missions scheduled for that season of research.

A NASA WB-57 takes off from the flight line of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California, 21AUG2019. The aircraft was utilizing the MCAS Miramar flight line and airspace to test new communications software.

In the rear seat (Robins AFB, Georgia), Don Darrow is about to take-off on a mission to track Hurricane Joaquin, in 2015.

Spain, 2011, stop-over for routine maintenance and refueling.

01JUL1979, then astronaut candidate Kathryn D. Sullivan set an unofficial altitude record in a NASA WB-57F; 63,300 feet was reached during a four-hour flight.

Mach2 issued two versions in 1:72 scale, the USAF RB-57 and the NASA WB-57F.  They are not for beginners as they are low quality low pressure injection (short run) kits.

Airmodel made a RB-57F vacformed conversion for the old 1:72 scale Airfix or Frog Canberra kits.

DB Productions makes a vacformed and resin R/WB-57D/F conversion for 1:72 Italeri B-57B.

Collect-Aire Models made a 1:48 scale resin kit.

BARE METAL: NASA’S MD-11 EXPERIMENTAL

IDAHO, KANSAS, UTAH HOME BASES FOR NASA’S DC-8 FIREX-AQ!

NASA ‘CLIMATE SPY PLANE’ PROVES CALIFORNIA’S STRICT ANTI-POLLUTION LAWS ARE A JOKE!